“I’m afraid to open my front door, they’re everywhere,” said Mary Dore, eyeing the ground outside her house in Balsall Heath suspiciously. “They run out from under the cars when you get in, they’re going in the engines. They chewed through the cables in my son’s car, costing him god knows how much. “There’s one street I can’t walk my dog because they come running out of the grass and the piles of rubbish. One time I screamed.” She’s referring to rats, which have multiplied rapidly as the rubbish has piled up in an ongoing bin strike in Birmingham. On
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