[garinda]

I wonder how much Tony Wilson and his wife, the lovely Yvette, were paid for this report? They came up with very similar ideas for St Helens, which they wanted to rebrand as the 'new Milan'.

I'm certainly not against regeneration, just that it has to be the right sort. I totally agree improving the Leeds/Liverpool canal is a good idea, Our great architectural hertitage could be saved by turning it into residential accomodation, now we have little industry.

What does worry me though is that we demolish more traditional, stone built tearraced houses, and replace them with jerry built new homes which are then demolished twenty years later, as can be witnessed now at Church traffic lights.

I really don't think we needed a Manchester face and his beauty queen wife to tell us this, especially when their ideas seem pretty much the same for all the areas they have been paid to write reports on.