Sidmouth wages war on scavenger seagulls with £80 feeding fines

Feeding the gulls in this part of East Devon can now bring a hefty financial penalty. Will it stop the problem?Perry King takes a break from cleaning windows in the seaside resort of Sidmouth. “Some of the seagulls do look fat,” he muses. “You look at them and think, that’s a chip bird.”In this part of East Devon, however, the days of seagulls surviving on a diet of chips, doughnuts, ice-cream and pasties may be coming to an end. Last week the district council becam