{"id":388752,"date":"2026-01-24T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388752\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:14:08","slug":"is-a-by-law-to-ban-feeding-eyemouth-gulls-the-best-way-forward-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388752\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a by-law to ban feeding Eyemouth gulls the best way forward?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Susan Thorkildsen, who lives just over the border in Cornhill-on-Tweed, said she did not think a feeding ban was the way to go in dealing with the gulls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They were here many, many, many years ago, long before people were here,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I actually feed them in Berwick and I feel like I am doing some good because, with me feeding them, it takes away the pressure from them looking for other scraps or pieces or whatever they can get off of other people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When people move to a seaside town, you&#8217;ve got to expect to have seagulls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s part of life, you know, you can&#8217;t say &#8211; hey, look, I&#8217;m here now, I don&#8217;t want you here, we&#8217;re going to get rid of you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Susan Thorkildsen, who lives just over the border in Cornhill-on-Tweed, said she did not think a feeding ban&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-388752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}