"You know you've got a job for life as long as you behave yourself", says refuse worker Gary Atkinson as he sits behind the wheel of his bin lorry on a street in Doncaster. He has ...

There is nothing worse than getting stuck behind a bin lorry on a hot day, with an evil concoction of food, nappies and God knows what else wafting through the air. Along with pig farming, fish ...

A man has died and two more have been injured after a bin lorry ploughed through a house in Herefordshire. The building was largely destroyed after the collision on Bridge Street, Leominster, as ...

A Derbyshire bin lorry, which caught fire due to unsafely discarded rubbish, was escorted back to its depot by fire crews.

The family of a bin worker killed when a refuse lorry went through the wall of a building have said they are "in complete disbelief" and utterly heartbroken over his death. Andzie "Stan" Stanik, who ...

The driver of the bin lorry that crashed, killing six people in Glasgow just days before Christmas, has told a documentary that he "unreservedly" apologises for his role in the tragedy. Harry Clarke ...

Defibrillators have been fitted to refuse collection vehicles operated by East Riding of Yorkshire Council to help people suffering from a cardiac arrest.

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A bin man has shared his hilarious reaction to drivers who get angry when the bin lorry blocks the road, as people said some bad-tempered motorists need to 'lighten up' ...

A bin man has shared his hilarious reaction to drivers who get angry when he blocks the road with his bin lorry - as he said ...