Big gulls are not so tweet

POSTIES in Hereford are getting stick for refusing to deliver letters in a street that’s dogged by divebombing seagulls.

Royal Mail says the gulls launch “swooping attacks” – 70 miles from the coast – and are attracted by their workers’ bright red uniforms.

Some residents think they are postman patsies.

But I have nothing but sympathy, having just returned from a holiday in the West Country where I was stalked by a particularly aggressive seagull. He took umbrage when I shooed him away from a beach cafe where he’d attacked a pizza box and scoffed half the contents – and he followed me all week.

I can’t prove it was the same feathered thug, of course, but I felt sure he had me Under Siege.

Which is why I named him Steven Seagull.