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Mountains of trash and 'cat-size' rats as garbage workers strike in U.K.'s second-largest city
In Britain's second largest city of Birmingham, a long running strike by garbage truck workers has led to huge piles of trash ...
Birmingham City and Tom Brady are promoted – but this is just the start
The football team carrying the city name, however, are embarking on a clean sweep. Tonight, Birmingham City — the club owned by the American investment firm Knighthead that counts Tom Brady among its ...
Man dressed as rat confronts Birmingham local govt about litter strike in council meeting
A rat' caused stifled laughter in a council meeting after it asked Birmingham Labour by what date they would clear the 21,000 ...
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Garbage piles up in Birmingham as the U.K. city's sanitation strike enters 5th week
As heaps of black bags littered sidewalks with their contents spilling out of holes chewed by critters, the city council ...
Rats ‘bigger than cats’ are roaming Britain’s second-biggest city as garbage collectors strike
Birmingham’s garbage collectors have been on strike over pay, so some of the city’s 1.2 million residents have not had their ...
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Giant rat discovered beneath Edinburgh’s Royal Mile
A startling discovery has been made beneath Edinburgh’s iconic Royal Mile as The Real Mary King’s Close have uncovered what appears to be the largest rat ever found in the city, measuring an ...
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First look at UK zoo’s HUGE new attraction as big as 17 football pitches – with ‘breathtaking site’ to open in days
Dubbed the "biggest and most ambitious" zoo habitats created, Heart of Africa is set to open on April 5 in Chester, northwest England ... Pygmy mice, naked mole rats, and short-eared sengi ...
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Restaurant Chain Closes Nearly 2,000 Outlets After Rat and Bug are Found in Its Food, Apologizes for 'Great Pain' Caused
Miguel Candela/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A Japanese restaurant, known as the country's leading Gyudon chain, has temporarily closed nearly 2000 of its stores after a rat and bug were found ...
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Popular Japanese beef bowl chain shuts after rat, bug found in food
A popular Japanese restaurant chain has closed nearly all of its 2,000 stores for cleaning this week, after a rat and a bug were found in its food. Sukiya, the country’s largest chain serving ...
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To protect wildlife, advocates look to reduce rat poison use in Mass.
An early X-ray of the red-tailed hawk shows no major trauma, which led the team at the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth to suspect it had ingested rat poison. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Even when ...