A mum said her area's rat problems are out of control after her daughter was woken up by a rat chewing through her bedroom carpet.
After that incident in November last year, the mum-of-two said rats also started to appear in the kitchen of her Page Moss family home.
The mum, who asked not to be named, said that after installing shop bought and makeshift traps she caught four rats in her kitchen – which she had banned her children, aged seven and ten. from going in “because it’s just not safe.”