{"id":810201,"date":"2026-03-07T13:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/810201\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:54:23","slug":"rats-the-size-of-rabbits-on-newport-street-plagued-by-fly-tipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/810201\/","title":{"rendered":"Rats &#8216;the size of rabbits&#8217; on Newport street plagued by fly-tipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Wall, who has lived on the street for 44 years, said the piles of dumped black bags had contained dirty nappies, food waste and even a dead rat which caused a ghastly smell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David, 63, said the last few years of dealing with the vermin and fly-tipping had taken a toll on his mental health. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just found myself being hyper-vigilant, constantly on edge 24 hours a day,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the rats had made it into some people&#8217;s homes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some days, I would feel quite nauseous because of the stench of some of the hot spots where the rats tend to sort of congregate, festering rubbish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Especially in the summer months when you have flies and maggots. That would make me ill, that would make anybody ill.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Wall, who has lived on the street for 44 years, said the piles of dumped black bags&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-810201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116188234685735904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}