its the sados who throw there half eaten takeaways down onto the streets.or the lazy school kids who can be seen disposing there litter and half eaten food next to a council black bin,we cant blame the business people who are getting there fingers rapped in this case.

Doesnt seem to be any mention about the sea gulls nesting in and around the roofs of all the solicitors offices in and around Spencer street will the council take them on and hold them responsible

This problem is being blown way out of proportion. It's always been nature that wild birds will look for food, they have to to survive, and its basically the fault of the litter louts and irresponsible busnesses that the birds are feeding in certain areas - simple answer is...be responsible and don't leave food and litter laying around and then birds wont hang out there, problem solved, that won't cost the tax payer anything.

a 22 air rifle will sort them out

"kingstown resident", What do you think the council can do? their hands are tied. Also why should precious council tax money sort out a problem brought on by litter louts who waste food? There are a lot more important things to spend the funding on.
Are there other towns and cities in the UK with similar problems, how are they dealing with the gulls?

You think all these gulls can survive on maccydees and greggs left overs???? NO WAY!!

The birds are just nesting here as it is the nearest place to the landfill site at Hespin Wood.

The council should solve this problem instead of getting businesses to foot the bill and just shifting the problem from one building to another.

If you were in the car park belonging to Screwfix then it is their responsibility as it is not a public car park.
Why should the local authority have to be responsible anyway? People shouldn't drop litter in the first place.It all comes down to lack of respect for others and the environment. The sooner more people are adequately educated the better.

Gulls are not scared by a Hawk, they will even gang up and attack a bird of prey. Remove the food source and the gulls will go elsewhere for food. Provide some wheelie bins for the purple bags, not attractive in the street but take a look at edinburgh, loads of wheelie bins and virtually no gulls. Fast food waste, again provide adequte bins that the gulls cant get into..and try to train the public not to discard food in the street, thats going to be a tough one..

give me an air rifle and i'll shoot the pests i used to work up at kingstown in the end we went up on the flat roof at work & removed the eggs & replaced them with dummy ones it was a constant battle to keep the vans for sale clean also the seagulls would attack would be customers not good for buisness!!!

Could some one from the council please tell the woman who lives behind me to stop feeding them 3 times a day. All we get is abuse when we kindly ask. I'm feed up of bird poo in my back yard where the kids play and on my washing. And believe me some of that splatter is like cow pats! Are these birds on steroids?