内容摘要：A firefighters union has criticised a fire service's decision to reduce the size of on-call crews from four to three per engine.

A firefighters union has criticised a fire service's decision to reduce the size of on-call crews from four to three per engine.

He said "we will do what we can to try to manage ahead to find small efficiencies, which will hopefully save hundreds of thousands of pounds".The cost of agency staff was the main driver behind the overspend, it was revealed.

Bin lorry drivers in Birmingham could have their pay cut by up to £8,000 under new proposals, their union said, asenters its eighth week.Refuse workers belonging to Unite started an all-out strike on 11 March, in a standoff with the council over proposed changes to roles and resulting pay cuts.

Unite said on Tuesday that, under new council plans, bin lorry drivers' pay could also fall from £40,000 to £32,000.Birmingham City Council said it was carrying out a "fair and transparent job evaluation process" agreed with trade unions, to comply with equal pay laws.

The council added the final workshop to evaluate a role known as "driver team leader" had taken place on Tuesday, but its results were "subject to further collective consultation".

Birmingham's bin strikes have led to bin bags and fly-tipped rubbish piling up on the city's streets, rat infestations, and fears for public health.The files have been published in a new book, The Murderer Who Must Be Saved, by French investigative journalists Karl Laske and Vincent Nouzille, and Libyan activist Samir Shegwara.

Mr Shegwara - who took part in the uprising against Gaddafi in 2011 - told the reporters the documents were retrieved from the archives of Libya's former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi, who was named as a Lockerbie suspect in 2015.The journalists spent four years checking their contents with contacts and against information already in the public domain.

Mr Nouzelle said: "Samir Shegwara's not interested in money or in revenge."He just wants these documents to go public for truth and for history and for justice.