birmingham city council has accused the refuse workers of holding the city to ransom. kathryn stanczyszyn reports. itjust keeps mounting up. six weeks of strike action by refuse workers has left some streets in birmingham full of bin bags and vulnerable to vermin. now the union behind the action, unite, says it will ballot its members on continuing that action all the way until christmas. the council is proposing to take safety critical responsibilities off bin loaders at the back of a bin wagon, endangering my members and the public. but, in doing so, and there will be a cost to my members‘ income of between £3,500 to £5,000 a person. they are already on low incomes, and they simply cannot afford it. the row with birmingham city council over changes to the waste service has deepened, with the council accusing unite of holding the city to ransom. it says it must modernise, saving millions of pounds in the process, and also that no one will losejobs. the city council says
in the wings for wednesday. but, ahead of it, it stays relatively quiet, so not a bad day on wednesday. it will cloud over from the west with that rain arriving, but that is going to be the story this week. there will be some spells of sunshine from time to time, but also, we can t rule out spells of rain. this is bbc news, the headlines: one person has died and at least 19 others were injured when a car was driven into a crowd in the american city of charlottesville, where demonstrations were being held against a far right march. officials say there have been another two deaths linked to clashes. an explosion in the pakistani city of quetta has left at least 15 people dead and 30 others injured. the pakistani military said the explosion targeted an army vehicle and several vehicles were set alight. the biggest star in world athletics, usain bolt of jamaica, has competed in his last major championship. bolt led his team in the 4 x 100 metres sprint relay, in london. but he pu
ends with an injury. one person has died and at least 19 people injured when a car was driven into a crowd in charlottesville, in the us state of virginia. a 20 year old man has been arrested and charged with murder. two police officers died in a helicopter crash outside the town, but it s not clear whether this was linked to the violence. brawls erupted between counter protesters and white nationalists attending a protest march against plans to remove a statue of a general who had fought for the pro slavery confederacy during the us civil war. the governor of virginia said his only message for the white supremacists was to go home. you are not wanted in this great commonwealth. shame on you. you pretend that you are patriots but you are anything but a patriot. you want to talk about patriots, talk about thomas jefferson and george washington, who brought our country together. you think about the patriots today, the young men and women who are wearing the cloth of our count
err, sideways. this month marks the 25th anniversary of the self checkout. the first one was installed in new york on 5 august, 1992, in price chopper. so what does its inventor, doctor howard schneider, remember of it all? i hadn t gone shopping much, so i went to the supermarket near my house with a stopwatch. and i started looking at people checking out, and my stopwatch went click, click it was a mechanical one. and, you know, isaid wow, what a great environment. this is so messy. good luck with any machine doing it, and i said, this would be a great, great problem to solve. and then i started building a machine in my garage. i actually spent every cent i had on parts, and i got the first machines built. see, i love self service checkouts, but then i m a control freak. but i do believe they save you time. until they go wrong, at which point they become a right pain in the bagging area. the technology in the machines now is less than it was 25 years ago, using 286 comp
he took on board his submarine. hello. one person has died and at least 19 people injured when a car was driven into a crowd in charlottesville, in the us state of virginia. a twenty year old man has been arrested and charged with murder. two police officers died in a helicopter crash outside the town, but it s not clear whether that was linked to the violence. brawls erupted between counter protesters and white nationalists attending a march against plans to remove a statue of a general who had fought for the pro slavery confederacy during the us civil war. the governor of virginia said his only message for the white supremacists was to go home. you are not wanted in this great commonwealth. shame on you. you pretended you re patriots but you are anything but a patriot. you want to talk about patriots, talk about thomas jefferson and george washington, who brought our country together. you think about the patriots today, the young men and women who are wearing the cloth of o