Family bite back in cottage rental row

A HOLIDAY rental cottage booked for a family celebration looked ideal at first, but a disturbing discovery then revealed it was definitely not up to scratch.

- By MAISHA FROST

ITCHING TO GET HOME: Family were badly bitten by an infestation of fleas

Shortly after Alice Perry arrived at the rural nook in Kent with her sister Jane, they began to itch and in the days that followed their skin became more inflamed with tens of red bumps. “We were scratching our stomachs and ankles like mad, the marks were obvious, an army of fleas had enjoyed a feast,” Alice told Crusader.

“We had noted animals were allowed at the property although not upstairs. As the itching got worse we took photos of the bites although getting ones of the fleas was proving to be pretty impossible.”