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STORY: Call for action over the number of rats in the city.

Chris Lowden: Drove through ryhope the other day and in broad daylight, there was a large rat just cleaning itself in the middle of the path. As people have said, need weekly bin collections back as normal.

Vikki Bond: They are everywhere. Been on the increase for past few years. Council will never admit its the bins. Rats as big as cats and in places you would never expect. Its like pied piper on a night.

Keith Rowe: Not clearing general waste away weekly so it’s standing around an extra week for seagulls/rotting and a massive increase in rats everywhere in the City.

Ian Middlemist: We were walking up Hylton Road the other night and there was one on the path right in front of us. They don’t even run off now.

Tracey Hepburn Jackson: Shud never stopped weekly bin collections, knew this would happen.

Billy Robson: My granddaughter used to live down bonners raft. Beside town bridge rats got into her car and chewed the seats.

Claire Gilby: There’s an issue with the drains all over but nothing is being done.

Michael Hindmarsh: All the Estate’s are crawling with them. Fortnightly bin collections have resulted in rubbish everywhere as bins are overflowing.

Lynne Eddie: Barnes Park is wick with them too entered park mount road end and saw at least six before I got to Kayle Road.

Paul Kendell: Maybe if people stopped littering probably the same people complaining about the rats and seagulls are the ones who’s feeding them.

Colin Cook: It isn't a rat problem it's humans. Don't be animals and dispose of your garbage properly.

Gillian Horne: In Burn Park, big ones.