Geordie shore: the river Tyne's 'soft, gentle' kittiwakes fly into trouble

The gull that 'won't eat your fish and chips' is about to make its annual return to the UK - but a favourite nesting spot is under threatDaniel Turner first became enamoured with the kittiwake when he was a teenager growing up in North Shields in the 1970s, where the North Sea meets the River Tyne."I would cross the Tyne on the Shields ferry and on the way I would also observe some of the plant life of the limestone grassland at the clifftops," he remembers. Continue reading...