SACKED workers on the Wembley Stadium project sparked a fresh row yesterday by claiming work on the site had virtually ground to a halt amid bitter disputes.

Talks aimed at breaking the deadlock following the dismissal of more than 200 workers, many formerly of Darlington firm Cleveland Bridge, are to be held today.

But they have been overshadowed by new claims that the £750m venue will not be completed on schedule.

Some of the sacked workers travelled to the TUC conference yesterday and said the project had stalled since the dispute flared a month ago.

Paul Kenny, of the GMB union, hit out at the Government for keeping in place employment laws which, he said, made it easy to sack workers.

Shop steward Graham Caster said: "These jobs are ours and we are going nowhere until we get them back."

The workers have been picketing Wembley for the past few weeks.

They lost their jobs in July but won a reprieve when employment agency Fast Track offered them work on the site, on behalf of Dutch firm Hollandia.

But they were sacked again weeks later, when Hollandia and Fast Track said they had made "unacceptable additional contract demands".

Workers were said to want a new redundancy policy and changes to working hours.

Last night, main contractor Multiplex denied allegations that the project was running months behind schedule.

The company said it could guarantee that work would be completed on time.