We were terrorised by seagulls

I have just been reading your article about the seagull problem, "Feathered friends? They're angry and out to get you" (Evening Post, June 29).

Thanks for highlighting it as my girlfriend and I thought we were the only ones. We live in Southville and the gulls' awful screaming wakes us up every morning of the year just before dawn.

Every day my girlfriend crosses Vauxhall Bridge and walks along the New Cut towpath to work. She rang me a few days ago in a very distressed state and told me she had been attacked by two seagulls, though there was no actual physical contact.

I met her from work that afternoon and was myself dive-bombed by these very large and aggressive creatures.

She has to run this gauntlet every morning and afternoon and is very frightened by it. Surely something has to be done about this as it could result in physical injury to somebody one day.

We rang pest control who said they couldn't do anything about it this year as the chicks had already hatched.

I just fail to see why in our own city we have to walk in fear.

As for them being beautiful creatures, I think crocodiles are beautiful creatures, but if they started breeding on our river banks we wouldn't just leave them to do what they want, would we?

JC Garland, by email