Residents in the UK's second largest city have been living in squalor after bin strikes have left them with 17,000 tonnes of ...

Birmingham City Council has declared a major incident as 17,000 tonnes of rubbish sits uncollected on the city's streets – ...

Fixing the city's problem depends on one clear solution: more cash. But as councils are painfully aware, rising costs mean ...

A local mum has voiced her frustration over the escalating rat problem in a major UK city, attributing it to fly-tipping and ...

Un-emptied bins and rubbish are rotting in the street, and now fly-tippers are adding to the chaos and attracting more ...

Strike action by binmen in Birmingham has seen the streets descend into a haven for rodents who have grown "as big as cats".

BIN strikes have triggered chaos with “rats the size of cats” infesting mounds of rubbish – with “no end in sight”. Manic scenes unfolded along the leafy streets of ...

In Birmingham, they say the rats are as big as cats. Nine weeks into the bin strike that has bedevilled the city, the unions this week announced it would be indefinite without a settlement.

He said: "I’ve seen lots of rats, and they are quite big like cats, and grey coloured. "It’s usually about 5am when I’m out working in the Colmore Road vicinity. "One time a rat got trapped ...

Rats plaguing the city have been described by locals as being the size of 'small cats' and claim that their homes are being overran by the vermin. It's not just homes suffering the problem ...

Residents have spoken of their horror after their streets were invaded by monster rats the size of cats which have been attacking cars and jumping out of wheelie bins. Locals in Labour-run ...