East London residents fear their area is being taken over by rats after a sudden increase in the number scurrying around since the summer. It’s not unusual for residents to spot dozens of rats scurrying back and forth on Angel Lane, which is located next to a railway line in Stratford, Newham.
This video of rats in Angel Lane was captured by local resident Marina Meier in the summer.
This video of rats in Angel Lane was captured by local resident Marina Meier in the summer.
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00:00There was a rat just here, just here, if you can see there's another one there that it moved
00:10So this leads to the train tracks and this is where they have their burrows, their houses
00:19So all around here you see rats, you probably can hear them now
00:25All the time there's another one going there, there's another one there, you can see them
00:35It's constant, hundreds and hundreds of rats
00:39They all hide in these bushes and weeds that haven't been maintained
00:46There's another one going there
00:56So here, I don't know if you can hear the noise, but there's one moving there, you can see them moving
01:05Another one
01:08There's another one running, running around, running around, another one there
01:14There's another one there, look
01:17So all this rubbish, all these bushes, they are all waiting to go until I move
01:25There's another one there, look, look how many
01:30It's absolutely wild, this one, see, waiting for me to move
01:34There's another one there, probably you cannot see them moving
01:39It's crazy, they all hide around these bushes
01:42This is Angel Lane in Stratford E15