BOLTON'S MPs are in London to vote on whether the UK should join air strikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq.

Labour MPs Julie Hilling, David Crausby and Yasmin Qureshi have all been recalled to parliament where Prime Minister David Cameron will ask them to back plans to join the US-led strikes.

Islamic State or IS has seized large parts of Iraq and Syria and have threatened to murder aid worker Alan Henning, who travelled to the region on a convoy from Bolton.

The terrorist group have already beheaded American journalists James Foley and Stephen Sotloff as well as British aid worker David Haines.

The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats are all in favour of action, which is said to be legal because the Iraqi government requested it.

The government is not proposing any action in Syria.

Speaking on his train to Westminster this morning, Bolton North East MP David Crausby said: "It is unfortunate but we have to do something about this, nobody takes pleasure in going to war but we simply cannot tolerate this organisation which is beheading people on a whim.

"If the action is passed, then I think we could possibly see bombing starting tonight."