7 h. ago ‘We’ve gone from helping earthquake and flooding victims to clearing up Birmingham’s bin bags’

Aston-based Faizan Global Relief Foundation has collected hundreds of bin bags with the help of volunteers who work through the night

Events

22 h. ago How CAN Labour MPs campaign for a Pakistan airport while rubbish piles up in streets? Multiculturalism has failed: MATT GOODWIN

As I write this, mounds of bin bags are continuing to pile up on Birmingham 's festering streets. Fly-tipping is rife, as are the rats - some as big as cats - that scurry through the streets.

Events

6 d. ago Drug dealer throws £10k cocaine over a fence as police raid home in county lines crackdown

This is the moment a drug dealer is captured lobbing a bin bag of cocaine and heroin over a backyard fence as cops smashed their way into a home.

Economics

8 d. ago Welsh council denies it will inspect bin bags and fine people

Flintshire County Council has been forced to suspend a door-to-door campaign to explain the new three-weekly bin collection scheme following threats and abuse towards staff

Politics

8 d. ago Are you worried that bin strikes could spread across the UK? Take our poll and have your say

Unite Boss says there's 'absolutely' a chance that strikes which have left mountains of bin bags piled up in Birmingham could spread across the UK

Events

9 d. ago Warning bin strikes could happen across UK as union talks collapse

Rubbish has been piling up on the city’s streets for several weeks as union pay dispute continues

Events

1 week ago Drug dealer launches bin bag of cocaine and heroin over fence as police raid home

A drug dealer was caught launching a bin bag full of cocaine and heroin over a fence as police smashed their way into a home in Birmingham.

Events

2 w. ago Mum and three kids forced to poo in bin bags after south London council failed to fix broken toilet

Zena Ekada was left in despair at the state of the temporary accommodation she was placed in by Lambeth Council

Events

2 w. ago Man dressed as giant rat interrupts Birmingham City Council meeting to demand bin strike action

A protester dressed as a giant rat interrupted a Birmingham City Council meeting to demand action on the ongoing bin strike which has seen rubbish bags piled high on the city's streets.

Events

2 w. ago A tale of two cities: Birmingham bin strikes hit city's poorest areas hardest as rubbish overflows into the streets...but posh roads just metres away are spotless

Rubbish has piled high in some of the poorest areas of Birmingham such as Balsall Heath, yet in the nearby roads lined with £1.5 million houses, there is not a bin bag in sight.

Events

2 w. ago Streeting worried about rats ‘crawling around’ in Birmingham amid bin strike

Members of the Unite union launched an all-out strike last month over pay and jobs which has led to tonnes of black bin bags not being collected.

Events

2 w. ago Wes Streeting hammers union over Birmingham bin strike saying piles of rubbish are 'not good for public health' as MP calls for soldiers to clear streets

The Health Secretary accused Unite of creating a situation where 'bin bags are piling up (and) we see rats and other vermin crawling around' in England's second city.

Events

2 w. ago Mum who left dead baby in bin bag kept tragic secret from husband for 25 years

Joanne Sharkey, who has today avoided jail, hid her dark secret for a quarter of a century, with her own husband having had no idea that she'd killed the child he never even knew existed

Events

2 w. ago Mother who killed baby 27 years ago receives suspended prison sentence

Joanne Sharkey admitted manslaughter after secret birth while she had postnatal depression after first childA woman who killed her newborn baby 27 years ago while she had severe postnatal depression has been handed a suspended prison sentence, as a judge said the case “calls for compassion”.Joanne Sharkey, 55, admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility over the death of her days-old son, whose body was found wrapped in bin bags in woodland in 1998. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Mum who killed her baby and dumped his body near Gulliver's World learns her fate

Joanne Sharkey admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility in connection with the death of her baby locals later named 'Callum,' who was discovered in a bin bag in woodland 27 years ago

Events

3 w. ago How Birmingham bin strike's buried the city in 17,000 tons of rubbish, unleashed huge rats and a disgusting stench... as tempers flare: ROBERT HARDMAN

The children are just a few feet away. I can hear them on the other side of the fence. They must be able to smell it: a mountain of leaking bin bags, foul-smelling waste sacks and suppurating wheelie-bins

Events

3 w. ago Sensitive military documents found dumped on residential street

The papers, marked ‘sensitive’, were found spilling out of a bin bag.

Events

3 w. ago Confidential military documents found dumped on residential street

The papers, marked ‘sensitive’, were found spilling out of a bin bag.

Events

4 w. ago Notting Hill dead baby: Couple seen 'tying bag' near bin as newborn found at church

A scaffolder said he witnessed a couple in their late 50s or 60s close to where the baby was found with the man appearing to tie a bag as a woman told him 'come on'

Events

4 w. ago Cousins went to the pub, someone made an allegation, then it 'got out of hand'

'For a month after the assault, I covered the mirrors in my house with bin bags to avoid seeing the gash on my face'

Politics