SOME people in Worcester are getting wound-up by the seagulls issue once again.

I do wish some individuals would gain some sense of proportion about such matters. I would imagine people who become purple-faced about a few gulls are also the same sort of folk who get hot under the collar over pigeons. I would just like to reiterate what I've said in the past about these creatures.

The presence of any animal is dictated by food supply. The reason why Worcester has an exceedingly healthy gull and pigeon population is because yobs are stupid enough to leave their junk food all over the roads and pavements.

Short of sending out individually addressed dinner invitations, the service couldn't be better for our avian friends. The riverbank is crawling with rats the size of cats for precisely the same reason. Now that we have a fine stock of rampaging rodents and plump pigeons, peregrine falcons have started to move in, along with more foxes. In fact, as far as the latter are concerned, I appear to be the main supplier of prime rabbit meat.

So there you have it. Everything in life is a question of cause and effect. It's been that way ever since the dawn of time.