Rats found in Tesco delivery crate and in restaurant

Rats have temporarily closed a restaurant, and prompted an apology from the UK’s biggest grocer following separate incidents involving the rodents.

Beckie Richardson, 19, from Essex, started hyperventilating and collapsed when she found a live rat inside a crate containing her online shopping order from Tesco, according to her mother Sue Richardson.

Mrs Richardson, who was also unloading the crates and rushed to help her daughter, told ITV News: “As Beckie lifted one of [the crates] I heard an almighty crash and she was on the floor.