‘Squeaky Blinders’: How rats bigger than cats are running riot in UK’s Birmingham

Rats, ‘the size of cats’, are running riot in Britain’s second-largest city, Birmingham, as waste spills from black bags left uncollected for days due to a strike by garbage collectors. With rubbish piling up, rats have taken over major parts of the city. The problem has grown so severe that locals have nicknamed the rodents the ‘Squeaky Blinders’, a nod to the infamous Peaky Blinders gang of the late 1800s

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