内容摘要：to continue to invest in Ukraine's defence and reconstruction - as well as to address Washington's concerns over the amount of aid it has already contributed.

to continue to invest in Ukraine's defence and reconstruction - as well as to address Washington's concerns over the amount of aid it has already contributed.

The wife of a Conservative councillor who was jailed after she posted an online rant about migrants is due to have her appeal against the sentence heard on Thursday.Lucy Connolly, from Northampton, posted on X that hotels housing asylum seekers should be set on fire on the day three girls were stabbed to death at a holiday club in Southport.

She was j, but launched a challenge to the sentence.Her case will be heard on Thursday.

Connolly, who was a childminder, is married to Ray Connolly, who lost his West Northamptonshire Council seat in this month's elections but kept his place on Northampton Town Council.As well as calling for asylum seeker hotels to be set on fire, her X post sought "mass deportations now".

The post, published on the day of the Southport attack, was viewed 310,000 times before she deleted it.

She pleaded guilty to intending to stir up racial hatred.The

says that the pay range for a bin worker is on average between £24,000 and £30,000 per year, or equivalent to between £11.50 and £14.50 an hour.Birmingham City Council told us that the pay band for loaders - the most junior people working on a bin lorry - in Birmingham was £24,027 to £25,992 - that's about £11.50 to £12.50 an hour.

Drivers are counted in a different category - heavy and large goods vehicle drivers - whose average earnings were £38,337, according to the ONS.In Birmingham, they are on a scale from £33,366 to £40,476.