I've only been away a week and look what they are doing to the World's Greatest Waterfront!

FOR more than 90 years, King Edward VII’s statue has enjoyed pride of place overlooking the Mersey at Liverpool Pier Head.
But even a monarch cannot be allowed to stand in the way of progress, and yesterday the man who ruled the British Empire for nine years from 1901, took a flying leap to a new home.
The statue of King Edward VII astride a horse was hoisted from its granite plinth to make way for the new canal being built across the Pier Head.
It will be placed into secure storage, along with other public works of art at the riverfront, and returned to the Pier Head next year when the building work is finished.