{"id":672400,"date":"2026-07-03T22:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672400\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:23:13","slug":"rat-infestation-supermarket-in-wolverhampton-must-pay-over-8k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672400\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rat infestation&#8217; supermarket in Wolverhampton must pay over \u00a38k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A supermarket where a &#8220;significant rat infestation&#8221; was found has been ordered to pay more than \u00a38,000, the council in Wolverhampton said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Evidence of rodent activity across a number of areas of the sales floor and warehouse was discovered by environmental health officers who went to Fighting Cocks Supermarket [FCS] on Dudley Road last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This included rat droppings, gnawed food, gnawed fixtures and fittings and rat footprints on dusty cans of food, the authority said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">FCS admitted breaches of the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 at Dudley Magistrates&#8217; Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The business was fined \u00a33,000, ordered to pay a victim surcharge of \u00a31,200 and \u00a34,000 in costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A supermarket where a &#8220;significant rat infestation&#8221; was found has been ordered to pay more than \u00a38,000, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672400","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=672400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}