内容摘要：Newport council documents show the landfill site is expected to close in the 2025-26 financial year.

Newport council documents show the landfill site is expected to close in the 2025-26 financial year.

The crash involving two motorcyclists was reported just minutes earlier at 09:55 BST.The ambulance service said both men needed treatment for serious injuries.

One was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and the other to Midlands Metropolitan University Hospital.The bill to settle Birmingham City Council’s equal pay liability could be below the £760m cited in its latest budget.Max Caller, the lead commissioner appointed by the government to oversee the financial recovery of the council, has said the figure is “not a real number” and is simply there for “accounting purposes”.

Mr Caller told a meeting of the: “The number that’s in your budget to settle equal pay, of around three quarters of a billion, is a maximum potential liability.”

He said the figure that would matter was whatever settlement figure was agreed with the GMB union.

He added: “Anybody who asks you questions about it, just say that’s the number until it’s not the number. Because it is pointless to go through an exercise of asking esoteric questions of things which don’t matter.”Last year, the installation was transported to Normandy to

The charity said that following an "overwhelming international response", the silhouettes were returning to be displayed at the British Normandy Memorial near the village of Ver-sur-Mer.They will stand to commemorate 80 years since the end of World War Two in Europe on 8 May 1945.

Four articulated lorries with flatbed trailers are transporting the silhouettes across the Channel, embarking at Portsmouth Harbour.The completed installation is due to be available to visit from 12 April until mid-September.