All this mess is not the fault of seagulls (From Worcester News)

Don't expect a reply from him, Helen. I have already argued against his letter to which he gave no reply. Also, a letter from Simon McCullough reveals no response from him also.
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The guy just decided to have a good rant, at a whim. He did not realise how silly and uneducated it has made him look.

Yes I support the views that litter dropped is a big cause of the flying vermin (seagulls) and campaigned for the fast food take away outlets on Blackpole to clean up the car parks after the late night car diners had eaten then just opened the car doors and left the remains on the floor. These outlets being close to a canal could well have encouraged rats and the like. Now this problem has been partly addressed the seagulls over Blackpole still swarm around in quite large and getting larger flocks scavenging and giving an Arial bombardment of droppings over anything, anyone, unfortunate to be under their flight path.
As to the seaside gulls they are just as much a nuisance by strutting among the visitors and dive bombing small children and stealing the very food / ice creams etc out of their hands. So yes they need culling, but the councils hands are tied by the so-called bird lovers. I recall the council had to turn down a previous offer by a man with a hunting Hawk / Kestrel, whose very presence would have driven the seagulls away. And now established they are prolific breeders. So I would like to hear a cure from the bird lovers which will address the numbers of flying vermin already here?

Jabbadad, I don’t understand your contradictive view. You make as much sense as councillor Amos!
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Bird lovers!? Has nothing to do with being a bird lover. It has, on the other hand, something to do with respecting all walks of life. We as people are the biggest vermin going.
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My answer to your question? Stop throwing away and wasting food and stop over fishing the sea and then the gulls won’t move in land, thus, preventing some useless city councillor from condoning animal cruelty as a quick fix for a solution to a problem that was created years ago by our own kind!

Why don`t we stop "growing" our human population and turn Worcester into an enormous bird sanctuary with Tub Thumper as warden?