Giant rats swarm houses as brazen rodents turn street into 'cesspit'

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rats have begun to move on from the abandoned homes and are now visiting occupied terraces across the road.Daily Record reports that the rats are 'playing havoc with residents’ lives' as a group of ten-strong vermin thronged at a back garden hut.Concerned residents also claim that one leapt out of a grey wheelie bin into a woman’s face, another flew out of a cupboard inside a house and a brazen rat took over a bird table to feast.Renfrewshire Council stands accused of abandoning Maple Drive and have failed to pick up mounting rubbish for months.Blocks in neighbouring Cedar Avenue and Elm Drive have previously been demolished and new homes built.But there’s been no movement in Maple Drive, with 42 flats left boarded and abandoned for nearly.