That’s mental. You couldn’t get the council to send out a work team to clear out a truly dilapidated alley even if you bribed them with season passes to one of the two clubs. Kind of feels spiteful.

Damn. That was a lovely alley.

In a joint statement, Labour administration councillors Sheikh and Hussain said they were "deeply saddened and appalled" after visiting the site and speaking to residents.

They said neither of them had been informed of, or authorised, any clearance work.

The councillors said they had asked senior officers to establish who authorised the work, why residents were not consulted, and why planting and community facilities were removed.

What are the chances they find out who's responsible?

"Anger as [whatever]" is the new slammed. It's a stupid fucking sentence fragment and of course it doesn't really even mean more than 5 Twitter users are angry