Seagulls are making our lives a misery

(The Argus, March 14).

Yes, seagulls are making our lives a misery in Palmeira Square - and so are the people who knowingly feed them and all the others who unknowingly feed them by dropping food and half-eaten snacks on the city's pavements.

Earplugs are standard issue to visitors staying with us.

I recently visited Dieppe, which has open markets and quayside fish restaurants but no problems with seagulls.

It can be done - Ken Livingstone cleared Trafalgar Square of pigeons and Brighton and Hove can do the same. Forbid the feeding of seagulls and pursue the careless and lazy people who drop litter.

And make householders understand that a flimsy black bag stuffed full of food waste dumped outside their front doorway is a magnet for gulls.

• David Wilson, Palmeira Avenue, Hove