Tell the Daily Star about your huge rat! Send us snaps and we’ll whack ’em without cost

We’re on the lookout for the biggest rats in Birmingham and now we want the city’s overrun residents to tell us about their massive rodents so that we can come and sort them out for you

The Daily Star is on its way to the West Midlands to help the suffering people of Birmingham with their rat problem.

But we need your help. Let us explain. We’re coming up to the Midlands with a local celebrity rat catcher who knows the area like the back of his hand but we’re just not after your run-of-the-mill rat – we want to find the biggest rat Birmingham has to offer.

We’ll be prowling the streets with WJ Pest Solutions, run by William Timms, who has become known as ‘the rat catcher of Birmingham.’

Have you got a particularly hefty one living in your bin? Have you seen one ‘the size of a cat’ chowing down on kebabs in the Jewellery Quarter? If so, your Daily Star will come and sort it out for free. All you have to do is send us a picture to webnews@dailystar.co.uk along with your contact details and if we think it’s a nasty enough nibbler, we will do what we can to get rid.

Our team will be heading to Birmingham on Tuesday, April 22, so be sure to get your submissions in before Easter Monday.

Birmingham has been overrun with rats since an all-out strike saw bin bags start to pile up in the street on March 11.

Residents have complained about rodents spreading over the city, with one person even saying rats chewed through the wires to the engine of his Mercedes, which left it “completely written off”.

Adam Yasin, aged 33 and from Balsall Heath, told Birmingham Live: “Because of that certain wiring, the car wouldn’t start. They said they need to rewire the whole car but the insurance company said it was too expensive.

“It has been really bad, especially where I live, there are a lot of restaurants there. I swear there was a pile (of rubbish) as tall as me, I kid you not.

“Today they collected the rubbish that was on the floor, so the bags that were on the floor, but the bins are still left.”

Bin workers ‘overwhelmingly’ rejected the proposition to end the strike, despite negotiations having stalled for months.

Unite general secretary, Sharon Graham said the proposition was “totally inadequate”, arguing: “The rejection of the offer is no surprise as these workers simply cannot afford to take pay cuts of this magnitude to pay the price for bad decision after bad decision.”

There have now even been reports that disease could have been breeding in the piles of garbage.

Infectious disease specialist Dr Elizabeth Sherida told the Telegraph: “There’s a risk related to rat exposure, like Weil’s disease, which comes from rat urine. That’s the one thing I would be worried about.

“Most people don’t know they have been exposed to rat urine. You are at risk if you handle things that rats have been running over and that gets into your system.