Britain’s second-biggest metropolis has a giant rubbish downside. Right here’s what CNN discovered

Birmingham, greatest often known as a hub of Britain’s industrial revolution and the setting of the BBC sequence ‘Peaky Blinders’ has struggled financially lately, and now mountains of rubbish baggage are piling up alongside the streets as rubbish collectors are on strike over a dispute with the town council over pay. Stories say the town is affected by a rise in rat infestations because of this, CNN’s Anna Cooban went to see what’s happening in Britain’s second-biggest metropolis.