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30 September 2009

By Graeme Donohoe

Secret Millionaire hauled to safety while undercover on the hit telly show — after bosses feared for his LIFE.

Forced out ... yobs drove Scots Secret Millionaire Tony Banks from Anfield.

Deserted ... 'They're like vampires only coming out at night'

Channel 4 producers were forced to pull ex-Para Tony Banks out of a rundown Liverpool estate when violence flared and he was targeted by yobs.

Care home boss Tony — who is worth £50million — and his terrified film crew had to flee after local hooligans went on the rampage. They set FIRE to cars and houses and threw bricks at the building in which he was staying in the city’s Anfield area, home of Liverpool FC’s stadium.

Falklands veteran Tony, from Kirriemuir, Angus, revealed he had to be moved because TV bosses feared his life was in danger. He said: “The place where I was staying in Liverpool is an absolute s***-hole — it was like Beirut - A lot of good people live amongst the chaos" .

It’s the first time they’ve been forced to move a Secret Millionaire for safety reasons.

The Anfield estate is derelict. They’ve been promising to regenerate it for years but all the houses are boarded up. The people of Anfield are like vampires — they only come out after dark. Things got really out of hand.

It was just kids really but once they saw the camera crew it was a magnet for trouble. Every night derelict properties were being set alight.

“I haven’t see the trailer for the show but I’m expecting them to be showing flames leaping from nearby buildings and all sorts of stuff.” Tony and his team lasted just three nights in the Scouse wasteland. He added: “The thing I remember most about Liverpool is the sirens.

“It was just chaos. There were druggies trying to rob the camera crew’s cars. Then they stoned the back window of the house I was staying in".

"After a third night of incidents, which meant I was getting just three hours’ sleep, a decision was taken to flee".

“The risk was we’d be the next house to have a Molotov cocktail posted through the letterbox. I could see the fear in the face of the assistant producer — she was scared.
I was wanting to go out and grab these yobs and kick their heads in but the TV crew made the right decision because it was deflecting from what I was there to do".

“There was no point putting people’s lives at risk so the decision was made to retreat from the house.”

By Graeme Donohoe

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1. LFC need land and over the last decade or so they've been buying as much as possible. They have added to the dereliction and abandoned look of the area by keeping scores of their properties unoccupied, boarded up and ill maintained. Over the years, LFC bought up a number of properties on both sides of Lothair Road (not just immediately behind the main stand) – but they were left to fall into decay and dereliction. The road became the target of vandals and arsonists, with 16 (not 14) separate fires in the properties over six years, causing misery to the few residents who remained. LFC land - banking dates back to David Moores' time at the club, it was adopted by H&G and until recently still existed under FSG. Someone at LFC took the decision to do this and until recently they continued to do it. LFC and FSG know how to play the "media" game - with sound bites and PR men neatly avoiding the fact that for many years they have been land-banking properties in the area therefore they played a part in creating or at least adding to the blighted problem.

2. Arena Housing (Your Housing) who are Registered Social Landlords (RSL) with a Corporate Social Responsibility, own possibly the largest number of empty properties in Lothair Road . 2a. Why is a government funded housing association with a corporate social responsibility charter - allowed to actually negate that responsibility by boarding up and neglecting their properties over a very long period of time? Arena have in the recent past, said that they won't spend money fixing their properties because LFC might want to demolish them! 2b. Has that been Arena's policy for the past 10 - 15 years? 2c. How can Liverpool football club's indecision dictate a government funded housing association's policy?

3. Liverpool City Council own properties in Lothair Road but beyond that, they hold immense power when it comes to procedures for dealing with long term empty properties. These procedures enable the council to force owners to think about the long term future of their EMPTY properties and to bring them back into use - yet not one (as far as I am aware) of these many blighted properties which are an eyesore and have had a negative effect on the neighbourhood and its residents, has had such measures implemented upon it.

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