Dozens of Brighton and Hove rubbish trucks jammed the streets as the city's binmen made their feelings known on the morning of important pay talks.

The city's refuse workers lined up their vehicles outside Brighton and Hove City Council's headquarters in Grand Avenue, Hove, and blasted their horns.

Council bosses and trade union leaders are locked in talks over proposals to chop between £2,000 and £8,000 off the workers' pay.

The row comes as Brighton and Hove City Council has been trying to deal with a historical inequality in its pay structure which has left it vulnerable to legal action.

Almost three thousand workers based at schools, libraries and other departments accepted cheques of up to £20,000 each in March.

The windfall was used to compensate them for being underpaid by comparison to others, mostly binmen, who have similar skills but have been paid significantly more by the council for a number of years.

A council spokeswoman said: "We want to work closely with the unions to come to an agreement about how the council can meet its legal and moral obligation to pay all staff fairly.

"It is very important that we do a good job of communicating with our staff throughout this review and that is why we want to consult the unions at this early stage."