She was even more surprised when police told her, her gardener who'd dug up the device had unwittingly driven round with it in the back of his van for a week. Police were horrified when the gardener brought the shell to Lower Lane Police Station, which along with neighbouring streets had to be evacuated until Bomb disposal experts arrived. Residents of a Bootle Neighbourhood have had to take desperate measures to combat a plague of Rats in the area. Men with air rifles have been seen shooting at the growing Rat menace in the Wordsworth Street area. Even children have took to the streets armed with sticks to bludgeon the rodents.
Local people say the number of vermin has reached epidemic proportions.
Now they are like a plague of Bluebottles. From late afternoon you can see a dozen scuttling round. I worked on the bins for 15 years, but I have never seen anything like this. Two men forced staff at Sayers Confectioners in Stanley Road to open a safe, from which cash was taken. The men entered the shop at 8.40am on Monday and used force to push shop workers into a back room to the safe.