Ninety drivers with a private ambulance company are set to share in huge payouts after winning a marathon dispute with their bosses.

Union leaders said the jackpot will total hundreds of thousands of pounds, but The Sentinel understands it could rise to £1million.A legal ruling against Parkwood will hand staff up to £2,000 each in compensation for having their wages and conditions wrongly pegged back for the past three years.

But it will also clear the way for other sums in back-pay currently being calculated.National arbitration agency ACAS last night found the company, which ferries 600 patients a day to routine hospital appointments, breached agreements designed to protect workers transferred from the NHS

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