BLACKBURN Council are exaggerating any danger to health from the local pigeons. I doubt if they could produce a single case of anyone being infected by contact with the pigeons.
I think the real reason for their bloodthirsty plan to destroy the pigeon population is their obsession with trying to gain city status and the increased importance of their already-inflated egos.
Many people like to see the pigeons in the town centre. It gives a feeling of being in a civilised society and living in harmony with other life forms.
It is people, not pigeons, who are the greatest health hazard and polluters of the environment.
J PILKINGTON (Mr), Elm Street, Blackburn.
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