William is Birmingham’s ‘rat catcher’, trying to shoot down the city’s exploding rat population, which is feasting on over 22,000 tonnes of dumped rubbish. As striking bin workers refused ...

Twice a year, a patrol team scrutinizes barns, straw bales and grain storage bins along a 600-kilometre stretch of the ...

The idea for the 'exploding' rat - now immortalised as part of the SOE legend - was developed in 1941. The aim was to blow up the enemy's boilers by lying the rat on the coal beside the boiler ...

And one pest controller says it’s not an isolated problem, with Sydney’s rat population “exploding” as local councils shift away from weekly bin collections. Resident Matthew O’Brien ...