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are stepping up industrial action in a dispute that has left rubbish piling up on the streets. members of the unite union have been refusing to do overtime and have been carrying out two hour stoppages every day, which rose to three hours a day. it looks bad and smells even worse. piles and piles of rubbish strewn gci’oss piles and piles of rubbish strewn across birmingham streets. on this road, it has been weak since the rubbish was collected. we saw a rat over there yesterday. absolutely disgraceful. for four weeks, over there yesterday. absolutely disgraceful. forfourweeks, it has been terrible. so we pay all that money in council taxes, and don t get anything. give the binmen what they want. it is disgusting. we come out of our house and it smells of rotte n out of our house and it smells of rotten food. it is horrible. dirty nappies. obviously, there is no other way to dispose of them. try and get as much who often as possible. when you open the bin, all you get ....
looking great for many us, rain on the way, a bit sunshine earlier, but now the weather is rapidly going downhill across the south, really soggy. downhill across the south, really soggy. this is the sunshine we had earlier, lovely weather in places, but now it is coming in from the atlantic, the south west, engulfing the uk with cloud, and this rain has already reached cornwall, devon, central and southern england, rain and strong winds for a time. it is not going to be a wall of water into it right across the country, the rain will wax and wane, it may stop and then come back again, but suffice to say it is a soggy one and not perfect if you have got plans for the garden or anything like that. tomorrow, wherever you are, a story of sunny spells and showers, lots of showers across the uk. the extreme south east, maybe kent, will get away with it, but for the rest of us, downpours galore. hello, this is bbc news, the headlines at 1:30. angry clashes in east london during ....
welcome to witness, here at the british library in london. this month, we have anotherfive people have witnessed extraordinary moments of history first hand. we ll be talking about the legalisation of homosexuality in britain 50 years ago. a breakthrough for women in the men s world of racing, and, in a moment, the russian ballet star rudolf nureyev defected to the west. but first, we go back to a turning point for china. china was wracked with a civil war between communists and the nationalists. translation: i never even thought about joining the communists. i followed the nationalist party all the way. i m 99 years old, and i still haven t changed my mind about that. for most people, life was wretched. someone had to rescue china from these miserable conditions. there were two men willing to try. one was chiang kai shek, who was leader of the nationalist troops. the other was mao zedong, who wanted to turn china into a communist state. the two men were to become bitte ....
east anglia and the south east should stay dry for a good part of the day. temperatures around 17 to 22 degrees, it will feel pleasant in between any of those showers. there will be frequent showers, particularly in the north. some drifting into the south east into the evening hours as well. fading overnight across much of england and wales, showers continued the scotla nd wales, showers continued the scotland and northern ireland. tomorrow, similar to today. sunshine and showers, some heavy and thundery in the north and west, fewer showers towards the south east and temperatures up to around 22 degrees. goodbye. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines at 10.30am: the threat of terrorism is very real. the disruption operation the efforts overnight have been very effective, but there is more work to do. the international trade secretary liam fox has said the government would not be keeping faith with the eu referendum result if it allowed the free movement of people t ....
western areas tonight. central and eastern, and southern areas of the uk will tend to clear. where the skies clear in the north it could be very chilly, down to 5 degrees. towns and cities nowhere near as cold. tomorrow, showers return. there will be fewer across more southern areas, most of them across scotland, northern ireland and western areas. they are very difficult to predict, what time and they will occur. and where they will occur. hello. this is bbc news. president trump has criticised china on twitter, saying it s doing nothing to halt north korea s weapons programme after pyongyang test fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile in a month. the australian prime minister says counter terror police have foiled an attempt to blow up a plane. four people have been arrested in raids across sydney. the threat of terrorism is very real. the disruption operation, the effo rts real. the disruption operation, the efforts overnight, have been very effective ....