"That is really the heart of music."

"It is spending more than £6m a year on employment agency fees in the refuse service."It is also wasting huge amounts of valuable police time, employing security guards that have nothing to do and pouring untold resources into declaring a major incident.

"These costs dwarf what it would take to undo the pay cuts."Responding to the claims, West Midlands Police told the BBC officers had not issued fines yet due to bin workers on the picket line co-operating.The strike has led to more than 17,000 tonnes of uncollected waste being left on the streets.

Timothy Huxtable, a councillor who represents Hall Green South, said a "mini tip" had been created by fly-tippers outside Tyseley Community Centre on Thursday."I've never seen so many black bags piled up. Bags had piled up so high, it blocked the access to the play area - there were kids inside, blocked in," he said.

Residents have been advised about booking slots at recycling centres but some people said they struggled to get appointments.

But on Friday there were reports the Lifford Lane recycling centre, in Kings Norton, was quiet.He added that the prime minister would "completely condemn" death threats received by the For Women Scotland who brought the Supreme Court legal case, adding they were "completely unacceptable".

Speaking to the BBC's Politics Live, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said her approach on the subject had "evolved"."My understanding of the law until this [Supreme Court] ruling was that it made provision for people who had been through the gender recognition process and transitioned to a different gender to be recognised in that gender in legal terms.

"I misunderstood the application of the law, like many people, and that's what we're working through now."Asked what the ruling meant for transpeople's participation in sport, Nandy said "biology matters" but added that there were international rules that prevented the government from interfering in the governance of sporting bodies.