A Life of Grime - Episode Guide

Mike Cording struggles to convince a Polish war veteran to remove the rubbish from his house and Alison Moreland and Pete Rollins investigate a flat overrun with pets.

On a hot day in London's Muswell Hill, Alison Morland and Simon Fisher have to brave the flies in a flat in which a man's dead body has been decomposing forthree weeks. Alison has the unenviable task of checking the dead man's belongings to check if he had sufficient funds to pay for hisfuneral. Within hours, the clean-up squad will make the flat habitable again.

Mr Trebus is determined to stop the council clearing his rat-infested garden. When the scaffolders arrive to startthe clean-up the 81-year-old takes the law- and the scaffolding-into his own hands, with dramatic consequences. It's post-mortem day at the public mortuary where technicians Paul and John have to cope with some of London's grisly corpses

MrTrebus returns from a night in police custodyto find thatthe council have moved into his garden.

The mortuary staff deal with the tragedy of an abandoned baby whose body lay undiscovered for 25 years, and food inspector Lorraine Powley makes a nasty discovery in the storeroom of a corner shop. MrTrebus continues his long-running battle with the council.

The mortuary staff deal with the tragedy of an abandoned baby whose body lay undiscovered for 25 years, and food inspectors Lorraine Powley and Bosola Joseph make a nasty discovery in the storeroom of a shop.

Tonight, a house in a foul state, a plague of cockroaches, and three bodies being prepared for postmortem.

Sheffield's Environmental Health are called in to tackle a woman who has 23 cats.

Office staff member June Crookes is shocked when she joins her front line colleagues, as a rat dines at a surburban house and an aggressive dog is abandoned by an evicted tenant.

A 26-stone man is found dead at home and three generations of women are evicted from a house they've turned into a health hazard.

A former steelworker has to decide whether to lose his home or his six much-loved but not house-trained cats.

In this final part, a rat man helps out a woman who has a paranoid fear of the furry vermin.

The documentary series following environmental-health workers returns for a new eight-part series, this time set in Salford, near Manchester.

In the second instalment of the fly-on-the-wall series, Salford's environmental team have to move fast to prevent a major asbestos health scare.

The documentary series observing the work of environmental health workers follows a warden as he attempts to round up a pack of wild dogs causing mayhem in Salford, and watches as a food inspector probes the hygiene standards of a local school.

The series observing the work of environmental health workers follows a warden as he attempts to round up a pack of wild dogs causing mayhem in Salford.

The series observing the work of environmental health workers focuses on problems at the crematorium.

The team of environmental health workers have to deal with an awful smell emanating from a woman's cellar as well as combat Salford's burgeoning pigeon population

The team of environmental health workers have to deal with an awful smell emanating from a woman's cellar.

It's "drain surgeon" Roy Chadwick 's last day in the job before retiring.

The series on environmental-health officers at London's Haringey council returns for a new eight-part series. Health inspector Yunes Teinaz visits a takeaway serving customers unwanted extras. Polish war veteran and rubbish collector Mr Trebus makes a last stand.

A pest control officer armed with sausages tackles a plague of rats, while at the mortuary the blood of a young drug user is tested for HIV in the second of the series following environmental health officers at London's Haringey council.

Eviction looms for a group of new-age travellers and their extended family of pot-belly pigs in the third of the series following environmental-health officers in north London.

A grocer selling live snails gets his produce confiscated by food inspector Dr Yunes Teinaz in the fourth of the series following environmental-health officers in north London.

A group of police cadets are introduced to a corpse and face theirfirst post mortem in the fifth of the series following environmental-health officers in north London.

Dr Yunes Teinaz suspects a plot when meat intended for the Muslim festival of Ede fails to arrive at a London butcher's.

The spectre of loneliness haunts pest officer George Whordley as he tries to helps a homeless man living under an arch.

In the last of the series, environmental health officers investigate a smell in a pianist's stairway, a food team tracks down an illegal food operation diverting meat intended for pets into the mouths of people, and Polish war veteran Edmund Trebus makes his final appearance.

Environmental health officers in Bristol come under scrutiny in a fifth, eight-part run. A rat has been found in a car engine, and there's a nasty smell coming from a flat.

Bristol City Council workers face the task of clearing years-worth of muck from a local boating lake.

Ian Thomas faces a rat-infested Bristol alleyway, while dog wardens track a stray that's running wild on a golf course.

Stuart Royall has the unenviable task of disinfecting a property following the removal of a four-week-old corpse.

Drain man Paul Vice is faced with a nightmare mob as he struggles to find a lost manhole under an acre of rubble.

An arson attack on a council house three weeks before Christmas gives housing surveyor Carl Turville a problem.

Pest officer Ian Thomas pursues a rat that has made itself at home in a Bristol garden, but an exorcist could be the only answer to an unwanted visitor in a council home.

In preparation for the Britain's Cleanest City competition, Bristol's pest control officers lay poison along the ancient underground waterways in an attempt to rid the city of rats.

In the sixth series of the fly-on-the-wall show a plumber in London's East End has his hands full when sewage from a 24-storey tower block erupts from a ground-floor toilet. Elsewhere, six stinking dogs cause problems.

In a tower block in the London borough of Tower
Hamlets, the rubbish chutes are blocked up to the ninth floor. A specialist team with strong stomachs is called in.

In London's East End an elderly woman with no next of kin receives a parish funeral, and a medieval burial site yields the remains of 10,000 people.

Environmental health officers investigate a caravan being used to shelter fighting cocks.

Environmental health officers visit the Tower Hamlets mortuary to investigate a suspicious death. They then have to deal with rotting meat found illegally dumped on the London borough's streets.

A pest officer attempts to tackle the worst cockroach infestation of his career.

Pest-control officer Tim Stevens visits an elderly lady whose food scraps are attracting more than just "rats with wings", while animal warden Dawn Sammons confronts a council tenant whose smelly pets are stinking out an entire housing block.

It's clean-up time in a flat that's been used as a crack den, while on the balconies of a high-rise, squatters have left some mess of their own.

It's time to get low down and dirty Stateside as the filth-focused series meets the unsung heroes of the Big Apple who keep the streets clean, the restaurants healthy and the five boroughs free of rats and roaches.

The Bronx breeds tough rats - can health inspector Robert Champion live up to his name? Food inspector Gifty closes a curry house, crime-scene cleaner Ron has gruesome messes to deal with and sanitation officer Gayle fines litterbugs.

When a woman's flat resembles a giant litter box, animal warden Mike Pastore has to take her cats away. But can he catch them? Plus the hunt in stinking rubbish for a chequebook.

Master of disaster Ron Alford must clean an apartment for a blind singer before her husband gets home from hospital. In Harlem, rat-catcher George is more afraid of the rats than they are of him. And in Brooklyn, Gail fearlessly pursues anyone who litters the sidewalk.

It's time once again to get low down and dirty Stateside as the filth-focused series meets the unsung heroes of the Big Apple who keep the streets clean, the restaurants healthy and the five boroughs free of rats and roaches.

Cleaning up after a murder and a suicide is a tough job for crime scene expert Ron Godspodowski , especially in 100-degree heat. Rat-catchers George and Charlotte wage war on vermin, and in the Bronx Mike Pastore has to deal with some very scary dogs.

Rat droppings discovered beneath the sushi bar could spell closure for a fashionable restaurant in Manhattan's financial district. Meanwhile, a garbage dumpster comes under investigation as the Big Apple's toxic cops search for radioactive waste.

With no family or money to pay for his burial, the body of a man has been held in the morgue for over a month. The corpse is rescued from fridge purgatory by a kind-hearted funeral director, but then confusion over the burial leads to a delay in the searing heat of July.

It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it ... as the clean-up force return, Edinburgh council workers Freddy and Jim are emptying a flat that's accumulated four tons of rubbish. Meanwhile on the streets, environmental warden Hazel Holt is issuing smokers who drop their fag ends with a F50 fixed penalty.

When a 300-year-old tomb in Edinburgh's city centre is vandalised, the council must pick up the pieces - literally. Across town, a man has died with no known next of kin, and Ann and Freddy must find out who will pay for the funeral. Meanwhile, street cleaner Derek keeps smiling through a day of dead animals and worse.

Edinburgh mortuary technician Vicky examines a body so decomposed it's virtually unidentifiable.
Pest controllers Jim and David try to reduce the city's seagull population, and cockroaches overwhelm a council high-rise kitchen.

It's summer in Edinburgh, and while pest controllers Jim and Freddy have a gadget to see off the wasps, street cleaner Ray must deal with festival flyer fall-out the old-fashioned way.

Edinburgh council workers Freddy and Jim clear a tenant's flat overrun with junk and creepy-crawlies, while graveyard workers Stuart and Gareth evict the homeless from the city's tombs. Meanwhile a blood spillage on a council estate means a call-out for mortuary worker George.

Environmental wardens Paul and Hazel search for the dogs responsible for a glut of excrement in Edinburgh. In Princes St Gardens, pest controllers try to keep rats under control.

A double bill of muckraking brings the series to an end. Edinburgh environmental health student Stephen Glass is tested on his knowledge of animal droppings and visits the mortuary where he views a dead body for the first time. Plus, tackling chewing gum stuck to the city's streets and as revellers descend en masse to celebrate Hogmanay, street cleaner Ray Stevenson is left to scoop up the mess they leave behind.