WHY are people feeding the seagulls and still putting food into their bin bags? These are flying rats that cause misery to most they come in contact with (all over the town there is a minority who seem to enjoy watching the colonies fight over bread or food from their black bags!) You don’t have to go back far to see the problems this minority of people have caused feeding them.

Back in July 2009 in the Barry & District News it was reported that 'Nesting seagulls take control at Barry Magistrates' - the seagulls were attacking magistrates as they were walking into the building.

However, one can't stop thinking that if they stayed in control of the magistrates, they would have put up more of a fight than the council did to keep it open!

This is just the start. Others report fish being stolen from ponds, people being admitted to A & E with wounds to their head, and the most frustrating of all, bags being torn to pieces to find last week's Sunday dinner.

Maybe the Vale of Glamorgan Council need to extend the zero tolerance initiative to include combating littering from people's opened bin bags (this would be indirectly feeding the seagulls), and warning people that feeding the seagulls has consequences on other people's lives.

Why can't the Vale Council make it compulsory to recycle residents' food waste?

Jeffrey Heathfield FocusBARRY Supporter Treharne Road Barry