内容摘要：Police previously said they believed the new application was linked to the previous owners and "not a completely new" operator.

Police previously said they believed the new application was linked to the previous owners and "not a completely new" operator.

Mahmood, who is the authority's cabinet member for environment and transport, said he continued to be a "proud trade union member" of Unison.The council also confirmed that leader John Cotton had refused to follow Mahmood's lead.

In a statement, he said: "As I have previously said, I wholly condemn the violence and intimidation we have seen on the picket lines in the last few weeks.""I have been a member of Unite and its predecessor union the T&G for many years, but the scenes we are witnessing are not in keeping with the traditions of trade unionism that I have always followed."I will continue to use my position as a member of the union and as leader of the council to call out these unacceptable behaviours."

He added that he would always put the interests of the people of Birmingham "above all else."The strike, involving about 350 bin workers, has been happening on and off since January until an all-out walkout began two weeks ago.

Safety work will be carried out on a motorway slip road following several serious crashes.

Road markings on the A684 at Junction 37 of the M6, near Kendal, are being introduced to "discourage overtaking on the motorway bridge, reduce speeds and increase visibility at night"."I'm always looking for things of interest and I just came upon it and I thought 'just wow'.

"I know it's just a simple thing, but I love the colours of all the different stones, I just think it's absolutely beautiful."Labour's Andy Burnham wants to press pause on the Right to Buy scheme after claiming it was the reason the housing crisis had got "worse every year".

He has called on the government to "suspend" the Right to Buy housing scheme to allow for more social homes to be built across the county.Mr Burnham has pledged to build 10,000 homes across Greater Manchester after he was elected for a third-term in the