Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news

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It's now a major incident. And some are now warning that it could be escalated to a 'public health emergency'. Give it a month or so, and they'll be putting Brum into lockdown, and the council leader will be giving sombre television addresses ordering the public to wear face masks.

The 'major incident' , of course, is the Birmingham bin strike, which means some bins may have gone unemptied for four weeks. But there's nothing public officials like more than deploying a bit of serious-sounding hyperbole to justify emergency powers.

What is odd, though, is that when the council announced last year........

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