50 years on and nurses are still fighting for pay it's shocking, appalling, vile

STARS of Call the Midwife are furious that nurses are still fighting for fair pay.

- NICOLA METHVEN

The new series of the beloved BBC drama, set in London's East End, has nurses' poor wages as a central theme.

The opening episode has moved forward to 1969 shortly before nurses' real-life pay battles of the 1970s.

Megan Cusack, who plays nurse Nancy Corrigan, said: "It's pretty vile. Revolting really, that it's been ongoing for so long. Nurses need to be paid better. It would be lovely if something like this gets people talking about it."

Linda Bassett, a much-loved senior nurse Phyllis Crane, is at odds with her character's stance, which is that nurses do not do it for the money.