Blair backs Liverpool paper's statues campaign

Prime minister Tony Blair is backing the Liverpool Daily Post's campaign to retain the Antony Gormley statues on Merseyside. Like 90% of the paper's readers, who have voted in favour of keeping them, he wants the Another Place statues, now known the iron men of Waterloo, to stay in their current place. Sefton council's chief executive Graham Haywood has also explained that the council decided to back the campaign after receiving a "staggering" number of complaints from across the world about their possible removal. (Via Liverpool Daily Post)