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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Simon McCarthy

Daylight robbery: Beaky Blinders filch free lunch from the gull-ible in a feathered fracas

Topics writer Simon McCarthy gulled into taunting the birds. Surely this won't come back to haunt him. Picture by Peter Lorimer

So, there I was, minding my own business, when the photographer came barrelling up and said he had a job for me. There's a turkey and cheese sandwich in it for you, too, he said, if you play your cards right.

It's a truth universally understood that Topics was sick the day they taught stranger danger at school, so a free lunch is the quickest way to get us in the back of the van shy of promising candy.

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