Cats poised to descend on Parliament to help rid Westminster of vermin
An army of cats are poised to descend on Westminster to help rid Parliament of vermin. Battersea Cats and Dogs Home have drawn up a list...
Battersea animal home offers up cats to 'help Houses of Parliament tackle rodent problem'
Cats from a London animal home are being offered to Westminster officials to help rid the Houses of Parliament of mice. The animals could...
London bee summit: pesticides or no pesticides?
The decision to frame the argument over neonicotinoids as pro- or anti-pesticide ignores the myriad options In London last Friday,...
Cockroach Infestation Closes US Chicken Plant
A US chicken factory, linked to a recent salmonella oubreak, has been shut down after inspectors found live cockroaches for the fourth...
Will 2014 be the year of the rat if Cambridge City Council axes its pest control team?
Infestations will spread unchecked if Cambridge City Council goes ahead with plans to axe its pest control team, unions fear. The...
Queasy Fried Chicken: Gruesome photos of closed down takeaway in east London released
Waltham Forest Council has released a series of gruesome photos of a now-closed takeaway that one its health inspectors described as ‘the...
Cockroach and Mice Menace Welsh hospitals
A kitchen next to a hospital clinic in Wales was "unfit for human habitation", BBC Wales has learned. The premises at Glangwili Hospital...
Pest control called 771 times in two-and-a-half years
PEST control has been summoned to hospitals in one city a staggering 771 times in two-and-a-half years. Among the call-outs were an...
Climate change 'driving spread of crop pests'
Climate change is helping pests and diseases that attack crops to spread around the world, a study suggests. Researchers from the...
Middlesbrough takeaway shut over after mouse infestation discovered
Environmental health officers used emergency closure powers to shut the Chicken Hut takeaway in Borough Road during a routine food...
