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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Matthew Cooper

Rats and other rodents posing ‘huge’ public health risk amid ongoing bin strike

The build-up of refuse caused by Birmingham’s ongoing bin collection strike poses a huge public health danger, with rodents flourishing on a “banquet” of rotting food, pest control experts have warned.

Nearly 400 council bin workers in Birmingham began indefinite strike action on Tuesday as part of a row over jobs and pay, with the Unite union saying the city council could end the dispute “by agreeing to pay a decent rate of pay”.

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