The increasing number of gulls is making life in parts of Brighton like living in a gullery.

Their incessant clamour is becoming intolerable. Their droppings splatter everything and their raiding of refuse bags litters the streets.

Song birds have been driven out and gulls are becoming more aggressive to people.

The situation will only get worse unless Brighton and Hove City Council takes action.

A gull colony in the north of England has been controlled by the simple expedient of pricking a small hole in the eggs to prevent them hatching.

Gulls in Brighton are not in need of protection. Their current numbers far exceed what would occur naturally - the consequence of food sources from human habitation.

It's time for gull control in Brighton.

-George Marshall, Brighton