Horde of rats run around outside restaurants and takeaways in stomach-churning footage

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rats scurrying around bins in a filthy alleyway near restaurants and takeaways.In the clip, filmed at night in Middlesbrough, the brazen rodents are scurrying around next to commercial-sized bins in search of scraps of food to eat.A man then appears and appears to dispose of a bucket near where the bins are, with rats running and jumping around his feet."Not even bothered," the person filming appears to say.The council said it was making an effort to control rat populations in Linthorpe Road – where the footage was taken – but hinted local businesses needed to do more to stop encouraging vermin such as throwing away rubbish properly.A Middlesbrough Council spokesman told TeesideLive it "responds to all reports of pests and rodents" and pest.