‘Rats the size of 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 waste collected for weeks. Mounds of garbage bags, some several feet high, dot the red-brick streets like pins on a corkboard

​ Birmingham’s garbage collectors have been on strike over pay, so some of the city’s 1.2 million residents have not had their waste collected for weeks. Mounds of garbage bags, some several feet high, dot the red-brick streets like pins on a corkboard Read More Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN