内容摘要："Now, we'll create jobs building up the site for homes where families can lay down roots for the future."

"Now, we'll create jobs building up the site for homes where families can lay down roots for the future."

He said: "You join like a library and you pay a membership."Thanks to lottery funding, we now can offer free memberships for those that need it and you can borrow things and bring them back a week later, rather than buying them."

Mr Jefferys said the money would go towards projects including skill-sharing, share festivals, community lockers and outreach programmes.He said: "We run skills on tool sharpening, bike repairs, mending clothes, and, if people have idea of other skills they'd like, we're open to suggestions."We're running some one day festivals - Share Fest, a festival of sharing, repairing, swapping and making.

"We're also going to pilot Share Shed lockers you can access whenever you're able to."Mr Jefferys said the majority of items loaned out by Share Shed had been donated.

He said: "If it's something you might only need now and again, chances are we've got that on the van.

"The big things you have to reserve a few days before you need it and then I'll bring it to wherever you'd like to pick it up."in a pay row that now also includes a dispute over bin lorry drivers' wages.

Police patrols had helped to secure the smooth exit of trucks in recent weeks but reduced powers meant piles of rubbish were starting to reappear in parts of the city.The use of those powers, under

, a law used around public gatherings, were "no longer in place", a force spokesperson confirmed,The legislation had been used to prevent strikers from delaying trucks as they left depots in the city.