SHOCK OF SEAGULLS

HIGH street shops have been refused permission to cull dive-bombing seagulls and told to give customers umbrellas instead.

- BY HANNAH RODGER

Businesses in Inverness and Nairn claim they are terrorised by the birds because government agency NatureScot won't grant control licences.

NatureScot says people will have to "find ways to live with gulls" and insisted they are a "species of conservation concern".

Fergus Ewing, SNP MSP for Inverness and Nairn, and Highlands Islands MSP Douglas Ross, have joined forces to brand the rules "bonkers and dangerous".