Historic retailer WH Smith has quit the UK high street after 233 years. The books and stationery retailer has sold its 480 ...

Stinky garbage is piling up on the streets of the U.K.'s second-largest city and causing chaos a month into a strike by trash ...

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The Birmingham Public Library is hosting a free hip-hop program later this month to promote conservation and recycling. Shaheed and DJ Supreme, who recently performed at the Central Library’s “Loud at ...

Val Kilmer, the longtime Hollywood star known for roles in "Top Gun," "Heat" and "Tombstone," among other films, died this ...

A standoff between garbage collectors and municipal officials in Britain’s second largest city has left an estimated 17,000 tons of trash on the streets. transcript A pay strike by garbage ...

Piles of black rubbish bags are filling the pavements of Birmingham, as the city deals with an ongoing bin strike. Mounds of waste remain uncollected, while residents have started to complain ...

Rats and other rodents are posing a "huge" public health risk amid the ongoing bin strikes in Birmingham, a pest control expert has warned. The rodents are said to be flourishing on the "banquet ...

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Will Timms is a very busy man. The pest controller spends his days criss-crossing Britain’s second-largest city to remove rats, cockroaches and other unwanted creatures from people’s homes.