, residents fear being caught in the middle of territorial gang wars.
Two yobs with shotguns jumped out of the cars in what locals pinned to a clash between two warring gangs."Yesterday one man asked me what the time was and then he tried to steal my phone."You don’t dare go out at night-time - you don’t feel safe. There are drug gangs." Pointing to a sofa dumped at the side of the road, she said: "There are rats everywhere - it’s like a slum with all the fly tipping.Mum-of-two Diana Gainaru, 42, added: "The rats are a problem."They can’t be bothered to walk to the bin, so they just throw their litter on the floor.And at the hillside Undercliffe Cemetery, where Peaky Blinders funeral scenes were filmed, volunteers hit out at fly tippers who dump their rubbish among graves.
"There are people who come here at the weekend and I have no idea what they get up to, but they leave lots of rubbish behind.