A STRIKE by York College lecturers has been called off after staff agreed to return to pay talks.

Members of the university and college lecturers' union, NATFHE, had been due to hold industrial action on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of an ongoing dispute over pay.

But a meeting of union members, who make up about a third of college staff, voted unanimously to cancel the two-day strike after managers offered to reopen talks.

Updated: 11:48 Saturday, March 12, 2005