A mum couldn't drive herself to work after she claimed rats chewed through wires in the engine of her Ford Fiesta.
Karen Burkert, from Huyton, claims that for the second time in two months she came to start her car outside her home only to find rats had built a nest on the engine. The 59-year-old told the ECHO she wasn't able to get to work after her car wouldn't start due to the damage done by the rodents.
She said: "I tried to drive to work but the car wouldn't start and it turned out that rats had nested in the engine and chewed through wires.