Lifford

On Thursday, the locked gates at the Atlas, Tyseley and Lifford, Kings Norton depots, as police withdrew officers, meant collections in the south, centre and east of the city were disrupted with waste left uncollected, the city council said.

Speaking on Friday - as a "mega picket" of union members was present at Lifford Lane depot in Kings Norton - Alden said he believed bin lorries had stalled again.

Charles Dooher, a 26-year-old farmer from Lifford in County Donegal, was at home when a masked gang beat him with iron bars and other weapons on 20 January.

The incident happened on the N14, north of Lifford, near Ballinalecky Cross, early on Friday.

John Doherty was ambushed by the IRA while visiting his widowed mother near Lifford, just across the border.