Sacks of trash are piled on the side of roads, as rats "as big as cats" roam in the streets, and a pungent smell of rotten ...

Rats are getting bigger and more brazen in a British city where a sanitation strike has left tons of garbage piled up on city streets, locals say, and residents are raising fears for public health.

Armed with torches and a thermal imaging camera, Sky's Midlands correspondent Lisa Dowd meets the Birmingham residents ...

Birmingham’s garbage collectors have been on strike over pay, so some of the city’s 1.2 million residents have not had their ...

Rats are roaming freely with an average of 10 rodents spotted per hour on Birmingham streets as rubbish piles grow larger and ...

"This strike has got to end soon," he says, "the government has to step in". Image: One of the many rats in Small Heath in Birmingham He swipes to a photo of a rat sat on a windowsill. "This is my ...

Birmingham City Council has confirmed it is sticking with its controversial ‘rat tax’ despite the ongoing bins strike leaving ...

A standoff between garbage collectors and municipal officials in Britain’s second largest city has left an estimated 17,000 ...

The giant rodents are feasting on leftover food and other waste as an estimated 17,000 tonnes of rubbish remains uncollected ...

A council plagued by bin strikes is to ask the Government for help clearing up rubbish. Birmingham city council has been ...

'Rats the size of my arm': Birmingham residents describe bin strike chaos.Credit: The Independent ...

THIS is the moment that a gigantic rat forced a group of Birmingham binmen to run for their lives.  The East Midlands city is ...