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REFUSE workers striking for better pay were dragged off their picket line and arrested by Sussex Police today.

Police moved in as the strikers asked scabs not to cross their picket line outside a waste depot at Hailsham in Wealden in East Sussex.

The GMB members have been on strike for a month and are employed by privateer Biffa to collect waste from almost 65,000 homes for Tory-run East Sussex County Council.

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