Strike action by bin workers has left lorries blocked from leaving a Birmingham waste depot, the city council says.

People are being warned not to throw batteries in their waste bins, after a fire in a refuse lorry. The lorry caught alight ...

Striking binmen at a Birmingham depot have delayed bin lorries leaving. The refuse workers striking over a job role being ...

Birmingham City Council said 'the level of intimidation and action outside the waste depots is causing an unsafe environment ...

Bin lorries are to be used in a landmark project to measure the mobile phone signal at every home and workplace across the ...

"We are in attendance to deal with any breach of the peace and bin lorries being unable to enter or leave the sites due to picketers," a statement said. "Stopping the collection of waste is ...

Devices are set to be installed on the lorries, which will collect data about the signal strength of mobile operators when ...

A spokesperson for the Greater Cambridge Shared Waste Services group said "the lorry was collecting blue bin recycling, and a battery or batteries... are the likely cause". The fire service said ...