There's a saying that you're never more than (insert number) feet from a rat but I'm beginning to think that you're closer to one on the car park between Nottingham Road and Stanton Road than anywhere else in Ilkeston. About lunchtime today I spotted what looked like a young rat there and only a few weeks ago there was one much larger on the footpath as we approached. And that wasn't the first I'd seen there. We've even reported them to the council but it seems as though there's a colony taken up residence in the undergrowth around the car park and they refuse to be evicted. It's hardly surprising though when irresponsible people drop half finished cartons of take-away food in the car park. I tried to take a photo of the one I saw today but once the rat saw me, it scurried off from its half eaten Saturday lunch into the cover of the surrounding vegetation so this blurred image is the best I could get.
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