Jonathan Morris BBC News South West BBC Becci Hey is in a tug-of-war battle with the council over sanitary bins in public toilets Public toilets at a seaside town in south Devon are at the centre of a row over what campaigners call people’s dignity and hygiene. Becci Hey has been installing sanitary bins in...
Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands Getty Images Residents have had to use mobile waste collections during the strike About 150 people have attended a public meeting calling for the union Unite and Birmingham City Council to resolve the ongoing strike by bin workers. The all-out strike began 13 weeks ago in a dispute over...
Bin worker strikes in Birmingham could last until December, after they voted to continue industrial action in a dispute over pay and jobs, according to union Unite. On-and-off strike action began on 6 January with 12 walkouts planned across four months, and the union began an indefinite all-out strike on 11 March. The union said...
A man has died following a road crash involving a bin lorry in Devon, police say. Emergency services were called to the incident at Higher Warberry Road, Torquay, at about 12:45 BST on Tuesday. Devon and Cornwall Police said a man from the area in his 20s had died at the scene and the incident...
People living in Exeter are being reminded about changes to bin collection dates after the Bank Holiday weekend. Due to the Spring Bank Holiday on Monday 26 May, City Council bin collections for refuse, recycling, food, and garden waste in Exeter will be delayed by one day. Bin collection will resume on their normal days...
People living in Exeter are being reminded about changes to bin collection dates after the Bank Holiday weekend. Due to the May Day Bank Holiday on Monday 5 May, City Council bin collections for refuse, recycling, food, and garden waste in Exeter will be delayed by one day. Bin collection will resume on their normal...
BBC Brian Smyth said Belfast City Council workers are lifting hundreds of used needles each month A proposed trial to install a waste needle bin in Belfast city centre is not a “silver bullet” but one step to dealing with drugs issues in the city, a councillor has said. Brian Smyth was speaking ahead of...
The Unite union has agreed to attend mediation talks with conciliation service Acas next week to try to settle the ongoing bin strike in Birmingham. It said talks with the city council broke up after 45 minutes on Wednesday but a deal could now be “in touching distance”. The all-out strike by Unite members over...
Shehnaz Khan BBC News, West Midlands PA Media The ongoing dispute has seen mountains of waste pile up in some areas of the city Talks are set to continue on Wednesday to end a strike by Birmingham bin workers which has seen mountains of uncollected rubbish pile up on pavements and street corners. Negotiations between...
Phil Mackie Midlands correspondent, BBC News BBC Piles of uncollected waste lined the streets of Percy Road in Balsall Heath In parts of Birmingham waste continues to go uncollected as all-out strike action by bin workers grinds on into its sixth week, leaving some of the city’s 1.2 million residents to deal with the fallout....
Gerry Georgieva & Anthony Reuben BBC Verify Reuters A strike among bin workers in Birmingham has left piles of waste around the city. At the heart of the dispute is the removal of the role of Waste Recycling and Collection Officers (WRCO), who were paid more than some other bin workers. How much do regular...
Andrew Dawkins BBC News, West Midlands PA Media Bin bags have piled up on streets during the dispute The Unite union says if Birmingham City Council puts in writing “what it is saying in public” a deal in the bin dispute “would be much closer”. In a statement, it claimed the authority’s leader John Cotton...
A range of stories appear on Wednesday’s front pages – the Daily Telegraph opts to lead with a report that the prime minister is nearing a new trade partnership with the European Union which could “put a trade deal with the White House at risk”. Catching the eye on the front is a grey-haired Johnny...
And, Vice-President JD Vance says there is a “good chance” of US-UK trade deal. Read full article at source...
8 minutes ago ShareSave ShareSave Tuesday’s Metro is one of a number of newspapers which features news of singer Katy Perry being part of an all-female crew which enjoyed 10 minutes in space on Monday. “Look at the moon … oh my God we’re in space”, is Metro’s headline. Perry is pictured holding a daisy...