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The mess the pigeons droppings creates has ruffled the feathers of residents in Hungerford, Berkshire, ITV News Correspondent Martha Fairlie reports
A Berkshire town overrun by pigeons wants to outsource its problem to North Yorkshire by sending some of its birds there.
Residents in Hungerford are fed up with the mess the pigeons droppings creates. They say it is a health and safety concern as people could slip on the mess.
It has become such a problem the town has its own pigeon committee.
And as past efforts to crack down on the problem have failed, the local council - desperate for new ideas - are thinking of catching the birds and sending them on a one way trip to Whitby.
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India s mounting Covid crisis poses a risk both foreign and domestic. ITV News Correspondent Martha Fairlie examines the international effort
The UK is to dispatch a further 1,000 ventilators to India as the country s healthcare systems struggles with a surge in Covid infections.
The government has stopped short of committing to sending vaccine supplies despite calls for Westminster to give doses earmarked for the UK to India.
India is in dire need of vaccines despite it being the world’s largest manufacturer of jabs and pressure has grown on the UK and other western countries to let India keep vaccines produced there.