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Another Birmingham City Council meeting descended into chaos today following furious interruptions from the public gallery.

The local authority’s full council meeting on Tuesday afternoon, December 2, was dramatically brought to a halt following an angry outburst over the bins strike .

The industrial action has rumbled on since the start of the year and was triggered by a long-running dispute between the Labour -run council and Unite the union.

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At today’s meeting, one man in support of Unite in the public gallery began shouting about how the dispute had ‘wasted’ millions of pounds.

“No apology from any of you,” he said.

“You have lied and lied – you have scaremongere

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