Rats the size of a shoe have been scurrying around a city apartment block in recent weeks with a dead skeleton also left outside a front door. Great Eastern Court in Thorpe Road has been plagued by vermin which some tenants believe has been a direct result of the roadworks to install a new bus and cycle contraflow lane nearby. Property management company Rendall and Ritner said it has been working with pest control on a course of action and has carried out a deep clean of the communal bins.