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1 week ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Jack Hardy |Tracey Kandohla
A union boss spearheading the Birmingham bin strike has blasted the city council and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner for failing to ‘offer her lads a good deal'. Unite regional secretary Annmarie Kilcline, 61, lives in a clean and litter-free leafy street 50 miles away from Britain's rat-invested second city, where mountains of rotting waste are piled high six weeks into the dispute with binmen.
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1 week ago | 
thesun.co.uk | Tracey Kandohla |Hana Carter
A FORMER mining district where almost a quarter of working age people are jobless has "no hope", disgruntled locals have said. The grim statistics in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, come amid a continuing cost of living crisis and brutal Government welfare cuts. According to ONS figures logged between October 2023 and September 2024, 22.9 per cent of working age (16-64) residents in Ashfield were economically inactive.
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Neil Johnston |Tracey Kandohla
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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Neil Johnston |Tracey Kandohla
Dr Skoyles said that Brooks was known for "episodes where he was capable of being angry", including when patients were on the table. "He was threatening, verbally not physically, in the operation theatre, and there were raised voices," he said. "It was not physical but he had strong opinions."Dr Skoyles said he first came into contact with Brooks several years ago when City Hospital and Queens Medical Centre merged to become the same trust.
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2 weeks ago | 
thesun.ie | Tracey Kandohla |Freya Parsons |Paul Sims
A FESTERING mountain of rubbish revived memories of the Winter of Discontent yesterday — as a bin strike’s fourth week caused misery for a city’s residents. Shocking images showed hundreds of black bags piled 6ft high at a temporary collection point in Tyseley, Birmingham. Up to 17,000 tons of waste have gone uncollected in the city since more than 350 refuse workers walked out on March 11 over wage cuts. The Unite union says about 150 members will be £8,000 worse off.
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2 weeks ago | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Tracey Kandohla |Freya Parsons |Paul Sims
A FESTERING mountain of rubbish revived memories of the Winter of Discontent yesterday — as a bin strike’s fourth week caused misery for a city’s residents. Shocking images showed hundreds of black bags piled 6ft high at a temporary collection point in Tyseley, Birmingham. Up to 17,000 tons of waste have gone uncollected in the city since more than 350 refuse workers walked out on March 11 over wage cuts. The Unite union says about 150 members will be £8,000 worse off.
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3 weeks ago | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Tracey Kandohla |Freya Parsons |Ryan Merrifield
BIRMINGHAM is quickly transforming into a "third world city", according to residents impacted by the ongoing bin strikes which has left 17,000 tonnes of rubbish on the streets. A major incident was declared this week by Birmingham City Council after the industrial action left mountains of uncollected waste piled high across the city. Members of the Unite union have been on all-out strike since March 11 in a dispute over pay and job losses.
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3 weeks ago | 
thesun.ie | Tracey Kandohla |Freya Parsons |Ryan Merrifield
BIRMINGHAM is quickly transforming into a "third world city", according to residents impacted by the ongoing bin strikes which has left 17,000 tonnes of rubbish on the streets. A major incident was declared this week by Birmingham City Council after the industrial action left mountains of uncollected waste piled high across the city. Members of the Unite union have been on all-out strike since March 11 in a dispute over pay and job losses.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimespost.com | Hope Brotherton |Tracey Kandohla |Freya Parsons
BIRMINGHAM is quickly transforming into a “third world city”, according to residents impacted by the ongoing bin strikes which has left 17,000 tonnes of rubbish on the streets. A major incident was declared this week by Birmingham City Council after the industrial action left mountains of uncollected waste piled high across the city. Members of the Unite union have been on all-out strike since March 11 in a dispute over pay and job losses.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Emily Davies |Tracey Kandohla
A four-year-old girl, her mother and a man who all died in a tragic house fire have been named. Emma Conn, 30, her daughter Mayci Fox, four, - both from Desborough - died in the fire along with Louie Thorn, 23, at the historic property in the village of Rushton, near Kettering. Emergency services were called to the fire at the Grade II-listed former station master's house in Northamptonshire at around 10.30pm on Friday.
