A block of flats in Edinburgh has been left full of dead rats as vermin run wild throughout the building, residents have claimed.
The rodents are often spotted travelling between council-owned black street bins and the stairwell bin storage in broad daylight.
One person living in the Cowgate block, run by the housing association Castle Rock on behalf of Places for People, said those living in the area feel "abandoned" by their landlord and local authority after they were told to foot the bill for exterminators, Edinburgh Live reports.