Thousands of families set to lose weekly bin collections
Above: Cars queue at Birmingham's Tyseley tip
Thousands of families face losing their weekly bin collections as cash-strapped council bosses look to make cuts of almost £14 million.
Officials in Wolverhampton are consulting on moves to introduce fortnightly pick-ups from next April in the face of “massive” Government funding reductions.
Walsall Council has just made the same controversial switch as the authority aims to save nearly £1 million.
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