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However, the local city council posted on Facebook that "no person or company has requested permits from this office or any other Municipal Government department for said event".

“It was her action that created the vacancy and the city council had no obligation to vote on anything necessarily because it’s an automatic trigger,” he said.

Striking workers have held a rally a day after Unite union members rejected the city council's latest pay offer.

A strike by bin workers in Birmingham is set to continue after the latest pay offer by the city council was "overwhelmingly" rejected.

At the end of March, the Labour-run city council declared a major incident, citing an estimated 17,000 tonnes of rubbish across Birmingham over the first four weeks of the strike.