Industrial action by Brighton and Hove's binmen has restarted after an agreement could not be reached with the council.

Cityclean drivers have restarted their work to rule which was called off at the end of last year while they entered into talks with Brighton and Hove City Council.

The work to rule means drivers will do no overtime and rubbish collections may be effected.

A spokesman for the council said: "The industrial action concerns a grading and pay issue for refuse and recycling drivers. As part of a full service redesign, we undertook to review the job descriptions of drivers and to come back to the unions on that by the end of December.

"We went through detailed discussions with the GMB on the content of the proposed job description and on December 18 a new description for the driver chargehand role was submitted to a job evaluation panel. The job evaluation process has been used for all other posts within the council

"The panel confirmed that the grade for the new job description was the same as the current grade. This means that the new duties are within the range of the current evaluation, and the job evaluation panel decided that they are also inline with the duties expected of similarly graded posts across the council."