Plague of rats invade East Riding village
Pest control officers are tackling a plague of rats in an East Yorkshire village.
Horrified residents alerted them after the rats swarmed across their gardens in Flamborough, near Bridlington.
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Hundreds of the vermin have been spotted eating food off bird tables and littering grass verges with rat holes.
East Riding Council pest control officers have laid bait traps at the infestation in the North Marine Road area.
Flamborough parish councillor Steve Crowther said he had never seen anything like it in his life.
"It's disgusting, they are all over the place, absolutely everywhere," he added.
The council has sent letters to residents informing them of the situation and giving assurances every action is being taken.
A spokesman said: "We are aware of the problem and have put down bait on the council owned land in the area and are in contact with local landowners to ask them to do the same.
"Pest control officers have already returned to the area to check it over for progress and will continue to do so until the infestation problem has been resolved."
Some residents believe that unharvested grain on the edges of fields along North Marine Road has led to the invasion of rats.
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by Charles, Cottt
Monday, March 09 2009, 2:09AM
“Millie
Surely that should be "the spelling and grammar upset me".
If you're going to be a pedant get it right.”
by Millie, Hull
Sunday, March 08 2009, 9:49PM
“I really must stop reading these comments. The spelling and grammar upsets me.”
by Kevin, Hull
Sunday, March 08 2009, 9:12AM
“Surely the question is how did they escape from County Hall”
by Charles, Cottingham
Sunday, March 08 2009, 1:58AM
“I don't understand how anyone can say rats are disgusting. It's an irrational display of prejudice against one of the finest animals still living after man has burnt and polluted his stoopid way across this benighted plot of earth.
Good luck to those rats; they are doing no harm to anyone.
Mice on the other hand are a different matter; just don't get me going about mice: yeurgh .....”
by the snoper, hull
Sunday, March 08 2009, 1:36AM
“jeff, hull
have you ever heard of the bubonic plague
the was no takeaways back then”
by chris, east yorkshire
Saturday, March 07 2009, 8:17PM
“what do you expect when idiotic councills dump all your waste in landfill sites, i have worked on bin wagons and been to the landfill sites,THEY ARE JUST RAT BREEDING PLACES,
go back to the old way, burn all our rubbish, then the rats will dwingle in numbers”
by Yaffle, in a rat trap
Friday, March 06 2009, 3:41PM
“Which came first... the rats in rural areas, or the humans in their houses?
I the rat's daily paper "The Big Cheese", they're complaining about the infestation of people in their countryside.”
by jeff, hull
Friday, March 06 2009, 2:35PM
“Which came first, the explosion of rats or the explosion of Chinese take-aways?”
by Kate (the pharaoh), bev
Friday, March 06 2009, 1:19PM
“Oi Astonomia, that's my joke...”
by John, Walkington
Friday, March 06 2009, 12:58PM
“The Rat Pack have got to go somewhere for their holidays.”