A RAT infestation at a Merstham food store, where a dead one was spotted by customers, forced the owner to close the shop for nearly a week.Shoppers caught sight of the rat – which lay dead at the bottom of the shop's door – as the store opened last Tuesday morning.Suresh Sreedharan, who has run J S Food & Wine in Portland Drive for 23 years, closed the shop later that day for a "thorough, deep clean".He told the Mirror: "When we opened the shutter a rodent was...
