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crazed rat which tried to eat disabled pensioner while she was asleep in her bed downstairs in her home.Husband John Kirk, 85, came downstairs to find wife Diana, 76, caked in blood, and her face and neck covered in claw and bite marks following the attack by the animal.The pensioner's eyelids, fingers and elbow had also been gnawed by the ravenous rodent which had been hiding in the couple's home in Bingham, Nottinghamshire.Unknown to the couple, the 9ins long animal had been nesting in their sideboard where John kept bird seed before savaging Diana in the early hours of Monday, May 9.The next morning the rat was caught in trap laid by a neighbour who shot it dead with a pellet gun.Retired tank driver John, who has been married to Diana for 36 years, said: “Diana’s injuries were horrific.“When I was in the army the fella in the next bed shot his brains out with a revolver but the mess that caused wasn’t as bad as this.“At first I thought Diana had been shot. “There was blood everywhere.

Covid-19 have apologised over the level of care – but families say it’s “too little, too late”.HC-One director John Kirk sent a letter to some relatives of residents at the Home Farm Care Home, in Portree, ahead of what is expected to be a damning Care Inspectorate report.The inspectorate sought to remove HC-One as the operator after an inspection found “serious and significant concerns” about the quality of care.An NHS Highland team was brought in to help run the facility but a court action to revoke the home’s licence has been deferred after it was said there had been substantial improvements.The case will resume on August 21 and the Care Inspectorate report will not be made public until after proceedings have ended.However HC-One has