Brian Wilkins, 76, who buys 30 loaves of bread a day to feed the birds was fined more than £2,000 for contributing to a vermin problem ...

"In my house, pigeons have taken ... the town but they send an old man to court instead. "He doesn't think he's done anything wrong but they have found him guilty of feeding the birds.

A man has been warned he faces being jailed if he continues to feed pigeons in a town centre, after he caused rat infestations. Brian Wilkins, 77, known to some as "the bird man", was convicted of ...