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Giant rats and stench: No end in sight for Birmingham's 'Binmageddon'

Residents are stuck in the middle of a dispute between Birmingham City Council and striking bin workers.

BBC News - 4d

'Too scared to open my front door' - householders' fears as rat infestation reports rise

Cardiff council's pest control service saw a 10% increase in call-outs to rat infestations last year.

BBC News - Mar. 15

'You can smell the stench': Why rubbish is piling up on Birmingham streets

Refuse workers have been on strike for over a week, leading to bags of rubbish piling up across the city.

BBC News - 6d

'The rubbish is alive': Rats feast as Birmingham bin workers strike

An indefinite strike by bin collectors starts in Birmingham, affecting more than 1.2 million people.

BBC News - Mar. 11

Book Review: ‘Care and Feeding,’ by Laurie Woolever; ‘Cellar Rat,’ by Hannah Selinger

New accounts of working in a man’s world — and that world’s comeuppance — are long on boldface names and even longer on personality.

The New York Times - Mar. 13

My pet rat is dying. I can’t stop thinking about all the things he taught me | Joseph Earp

Owning and caring for a creature takes us outside of ourselves – not just us insular weirdo artists, but all people. . I’m a writer and painter, two professions with the occupational risk of ...

The Guardian - Mar. 13

Rubbish piles high in Birmingham as bin strike drags on

Residents report seeing rats and foxes amid rising stacks of bin bags on Birmingham's streets.

BBC News - 5d

Snitch City — a podcast that unveils the secret life of police informants

The Boston Globe’s investigative series looks at a murky and unsupervised world of drugs, gangs and ‘rats’

Financial Times - 2d

In "Mickey 17," Bong Joon Ho recycles Robert Pattinson and his old ideas

The director's follow-up to his Oscar-winning "Parasite" has a human lab rat dying over and over again to serve a space colony ruled by a scheming Mark Ruffalo.

Los Angeles Times - Mar. 7

Bacon, mungbean and cheese? How soaring egg prices are affecting New York’s most famous sandwich

Delis are turning to plant-based egg substitutes as bird flu and inflation push up the cost of the real thing. But how does the faux BEC compare?. Like a yellow taxi or the pizza rat, the bacon, ...