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Birmingham Mail
|May 12, 2025
KEVIN USES CITY STRIKE TO INSPIRE 'RATS AS BIG AS CATS' CALENDAR
BRITAIN’S ‘dullest man’ believes he has produced his most rubbish calendar to date, dedicated to the Birmingham bin strikes.
Kevin Beresford has created the 2026 calendar after the industrial action blighting his home city named “Rats as Big as Cats”.
The 73-year-old businessman spent several days hunting down and photographing the worst hot-spots for uncollected rubbish in order to record the ongoing strikes.
This story is from the May 12, 2025 edition of Birmingham Mail.
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