内容摘要："It's such a slow process, so we decided to do private because we wanted to speed it up because of the age," Mr Standen told the BBC, adding the regional differences were "unfair".

"It's such a slow process, so we decided to do private because we wanted to speed it up because of the age," Mr Standen told the BBC, adding the regional differences were "unfair".

Mobile bin collection points in Birmingham have seen mile-long queues as residents try to get rid of their uncollected rubbish.There were traffic delays around Woodgate Valley Park on Friday after Birmingham City Council opened a mobile site at 07:45 BST. The move was amid the all-out strike, which was declared a major incident on Monday.

Elsewhere, striking bin workers, who are members of Unite the Union, claimed they were "threatened" with arrest and fines if they continued to delay bin lorries leaving a depot in Tyseley.The council previously said Unite was stopping them from operating a contingency service, which would allow them to make one bin collection to every household a week.One person, who did not want to be identified, told the BBC there was a large police presence in the area earlier.

He said: "Wagons started to make their move out of the front gate and nobody was allowed to hamper them."I was told anybody getting arrested today was facing a £1,000 fine per person."

During the all-out strike that began on 11 March, workers on the picket line have walked slowly in front of the bin lorries being driven out.

Unite national lead officer Onay Kasab said the only thing that would end the strike was for the council to resolve its "horrific pay attacks".He will appear at Norwich Crown Court on 19 June and was granted conditional bail.

Alana arrives for our interview with a bag for life full of lacey underwear, knee-high boots and a leather whip.She initially seems nervous, but begins to relax when we start talking about her job.

Alana is the name she has given herself - an identity to separate her work self from her everyday life as a mum."At the end of the day, we take all our make-up off, and go back to shopping at Asda, or do the school run," she says.