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Plymouth is hosting a festival dedicated to seagulls

Britain’s most notorious avian troublemakers are being celebrated in the nation’s inaugural festival dedicated to seagulls. Gullfest, taking place in Plymouth, will feature a two-hour parade where enthusiasts donning costumes of the feathered creatures will perform a song crafted in their honour.

The event is centred around the 37 Looe Street gallery and will see approximately 40 performers and artists engaging in music, spoken word, poetry, painting, and film events to pay homage to gulls as “majestic” companions to humans, reports the Daily Star.

Organiser Mo Bottomley said: “Gullfest is an arts festival celebrating our great Plymouth co-habitant, the majestic seagull. Whether the svelte lesser black-backed, its larger cousin, the ubiquitous herring gull, the sweet little black-headed…


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Six-fold increase in UK web traffic to incel websites; Plymouth mass shooter termed as hero, World News

A new analysis has revealed that there has been a six-fold increase in UK web traffic to websites that promote hate-filled “incel” culture. As per reports, users on these websites have been discussing raping women. A report by The Times suggested that users on the sites referred to Plymouth mass shooter Jake Davison as a hero and called for “all women to be raped at least once”.

Davison killed five people, including his mother. As per the police, the incident, which is termed the worst mass shooting in Britain since 2010, is not terror-related. In videos which surfaced online, Davison spoke of being “beaten down” and “defeated by life”

According to the law commission, incel websites show “threatening or abusive material which incites and glorifies violence,…


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