Birmingham City Council

Intervention over the banning of fans at the Aston Villa match was late and clumsy, MPs say.

Striking bin worker Maxine Stanley says she will still "stand strong" despite financial pressures.

Industrial action has been affecting recycling collections for more than a year.

With no end in sight to the year long dispute the BBC looks at what has to happen for it to end.

Approval for the multimillion-pound Druids Heath scheme has now been reversed, the council says.

The authority says two-and-a-half years after financial crisis, it is on a sounder fiscal footing.

The city council says it is suspending collections because it expects disruption at all depots.