{"id":462410,"date":"2026-03-07T10:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462410\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T10:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:48:10","slug":"rats-the-size-of-rabbits-on-newport-street-plagued-by-fly-tipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462410\/","title":{"rendered":"Rats &#8216;the size of rabbits&#8217; on Newport street plagued by fly-tipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Wall, who has lived on the street for 44 years, said the piles of dumped black bags had contained dirty nappies, food waste and even a dead rat which caused a ghastly smell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David, 63, said the last few years of dealing with the vermin and fly-tipping had taken a toll on his mental health. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just found myself being hyper-vigilant, constantly on edge 24 hours a day,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the rats had made it into some people&#8217;s homes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some days, I would feel quite nauseous because of the stench of some of the hot spots where the rats tend to sort of congregate, festering rubbish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Especially in the summer months when you have flies and maggots. That would make me ill, that would make anybody ill.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Wall, who has lived on the street for 44 years, said the piles of dumped black bags&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-462410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}