So Julia Elliot, of Tennis Road, Hove, wants Brighton and Hove City Council to sort out her seagull problem (The Argus, August 16)?

Please explain to me why these people choose to live near the sea. Perhaps they should stay in a sterilised bubble where pests such as nature cannot intrude.

The first option always seems to be to eradicate anything that interrupts our oh so important day-to-day human lives. If you don't like seagulls, move inland, where you can complain about the foxes instead.

-Susan Luxton, Brunswick Square, Brighton