Images of a picket line outside London's St Thomas' Hospital as junior doctors in England start a six-day walkout in their longest consecutive strike in the seven-decade history of Britain's National Service. The doctors -- those below consultant level -- say their wages have gone down by a quarter in real terms under the current government with the industrial action coming at one of the busiest times of the year for the state-funded service. "A lot of doctors are in really desperate circumstances," says one junior doctor on the picket line in London. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES