In Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Labour won five seats, UKIP won one and the Conservatives held two.
BBC: Stoke & Staffordshire
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They are: Dudley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Rugby, Sandwell, Shropshire, South Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall, Wolverhampton and Wyre Forest.
BBC: Planning shake-up: Time running out for local councils
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Newcastle-under-Lyme uses separate containers and bags for refuse, cardboard, plastics, paper, glass and cans, textiles and garden waste.
BBC: 'People are being given too many recycling bins'