Simon O'Brien, famous for playing Damon Grant in channel 4's Brookside, made the remark on his show on BBC radio Merseyside on an advert for a programme about the planned regeneration of Liverpool's Edge Lane area and what the people of the area think of the plans.

The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, Leader of the House of Commons was the host of a parliamentary briefing held in Westminster entitled Transition to Transformation: Housing Market Renewal and our Communities. He heard figures from the chair of the WDC (who doesn't live in the Welsh Streets herself) that seem to have been pulled out of thin air.

It seems, through the local grapevine that is as getting information from the so called people in control is a farce, that the properties on the half of kelvin grove that were supposedly being torn down have been passed back into the hands of the council for some reason yet to be divulged to the people concerned.