Workers, union activists and campaign groups are to protest through Southampton today to warn of the threat to jobs and public services as a result of the Government's spending cuts.

Public sector workers including nurses, teachers, librarians, firefighters and other employees will take part in rallies and meetings as part of a campaign against the Comprehensive Spending Review.

As well as Southampton events will be held today in areas including Cardiff, Newcastle, Sheffield, Barnsley, Cambridge, Bolton, Luton and London.

Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, said: ''The coalition is taking a chainsaw to our public services and we are under attack, not because of a deficit, but because of an ideology.

''We will build an alliance of all public service unions to break the pay freeze, protect our pensions and stop the cuts.

''If the Government doesn't listen to us today, they won't have heard the last of us. If George Osborne's cuts go through - cuts that could mean a death sentence for our services and our communities - then we will be back.''