Even The BBC Squeals Rats!

If mice have elicited a merry tune or made you dance around in your office canteen or about your seat, relax because mice menace hit even a high-end place like the BBC office.

The BBC is battling a plague of mice in its canteen, as horrified staff at the eaterie - famously the butt of jokes by stars who use it - have repeatedly spotted the vermin, The Sun reported Sunday.

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Rodents scurry across the restaurant floor, leave droppings in kitchen preparation areas - and one was even found dead in the fan of a fridge.

Despite bosses hiring pest controllers who have been accused by the BBC of falling down on the job at its White City headquarters in west London, the invasion has continued.

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