I’m not about to defend my awful country , but misleading headline. Dimming / turning off street lights off late at night is more of an environmental / energy saving measure, and literally everywhere in the UK has fortnightly bin collection, those are both very standard.
It’s also misleading in the other direction, in that it focuses on Birmingham like it’s a special case, when maybe literally every local government here is in deficit and cutting vital services. More councils went bankrupt in the last few years than the previous half century. A huge percentage of councils are due to go bankrupt very soon.
I fear I’m missing something, 'cause Birmingham is like twice the size of Manchester.
Mancs love to claim second city status these days. There’s even a wiki article about it
In bad country …something, something
Here come the articles about how immigrants are bad.