Thurso lifeboat worker nurses injured seagull back to health… with mince and tatties!

A LIFEBOAT worker nursed a seagull back to life – with servings of mince and tatties.

Coxswain William “Wing” Munro discovered the badly injured seagull at the entrance to the Thurso lifeboat station last November.

The 64-year-old decided against putting it out of its misery and nursed it back to health on a diet of fish, cat food and the Scots staple, mince and tatties.

“I just kept feeding him more and more and he kept getting better,” he said.

The gull, which Wing called Granty after a local regular visitor to the lifeboat station, seemed to have a broken wing and couldn’t fly. But after six months of prowling around the harbour, Granty completed his miraculous recovery and took to the skies again.

Despite his new-found freedom, Granty is still living at the harbour and visits the lifeboat station where he knows he’ll be well fed.