We are looking forward to continuing with negotiations.” Nearly 400 council bin workers in Birmingham are continuing strike action Credit: Jacob King/PA Earlier, Health Secretary Wes Streeting ...

Refuse workers have rejected a deal aimed at ending a long-running strike. Unite said its members in Birmingham voted overwhelmingly against what the union described as the council’s “totally ...

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“For example, if you were handling bin bags and it got into your eyes or you put your hands in your mouth. If anyone is handling stuff where rats may have been, they should wear gloves and wash ...

The body of a brown and white female dog, a Jack Russell-chihuahua cross, was found wrapped in a black bin bag in the undergrowth. The RSCA has now made a desperate appeal for information as ...

Fears have focused on the Birmingham bin workers’ strike, now in its fifth week. The bin workers are fighting massive wage cuts, attacks on conditions and job destruction by Labour-run ...

BCC’s latest offer not only retained the original pay cuts against loaders, but would have meant up to 200 bin truck drivers facing pay cuts of thousands of pounds. The No vote saw Unite the ...

Firefighters swarmed a Moss Side street after a bin fire spread to a house. Dramatic images show flames soaring outside a property on Quinney Crescent in the early hours of Monday morning (April 7).

Campaigners are calling on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to abolish a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) eligibility rule that excludes individuals with certain health conditions ...

A senior Labour MP has been accused of abandoning his constituents by taking a luxury trip to Japan during the Birmingham bin strike crisis. Liam Byrne, the MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill and ...

"She saw a pair of legs climb out from inside the bin and run off," the prosecution said. The manager at a South Shields nursery reported seeing someone "rooting around inside" one of the clinical ...