Shropshire Council confirms it will end pest control service and make controllers redundant
Redundancy notices have been served on Shropshire Council's pest control team and the authority is now ending the service to residents as it attempts to save costs.
The pest controllers were told they no longer had jobs on Thursday following a 45-day consultation period.
The council revealed in June that it was talking to its staff over the future of the department and the four pest controllers employed by the authority.
One of the pest controllers who was made redundant on Thursday, but does not want to be named, said: "We went in for a meeting on Thursday and we were given our redundancy notices and told that from next week there will be no more pest control service.
"We will still be undertaking those jobs that are booked in but from next week that will be it.
