Rat infestations can reduce property values by up to 20%, equal to as much as £53,000.

As if it wasn't bad enough contending with 'spider season' every year. Now bed bugs, not content with wreaking havoc across the continent, are here. In the UK. For Halloween. Awesome.

With Britain's bedbug crisis getting worse, landlords are being urged to work more “proactively” with their tenants if and when cases emerge.