Regarding the article in the Gazette about seagulls in Looe attacking cars and people eating on the beach and in the streets, as your reporter is a lady from Liskeard she surely knows that we in this town have the same problem with them.

A couple of years ago I got up a petition asking Caradon to do something. A member of Caradon tried but was stopped by someone in a higher position.

We put our clothes on the line and it gets covered with their droppings and have to be washed again. Also they get it all over the windows, walls and roofs. You have your windows cleaned in the morning, by the afternoon they are covered. And it makes you reluctant to paint the outside of your house.

They also take food out of your hand if you are out in the garden having a meal. My little granddaughter had a sandwich taken out of her hand and she was so badly frightened she fell off her chair onto the patio.

She was only three years old at the time and could have hurt herself. A lot of people still feed them. Surely we do not have to put up with this.I and several others think of them as vermin - if they were rats something would be done about it.

J Pollard (Mrs)

Liskeard