Was in the Liverpool Echo this week that there was an extension to the EU Obj 1 deadline - we'd signed sort some of agreement with the council as regards a commitment to the regeneration work and resubmitted the planning application to take account of new regulations (expected to get the nod Tuesday). Liverpool Echo, April 5th: "It is continuing to try to tie up private funding for the scheme, which must be in place by the middle of this month, or it will miss out on around £10m of financial support from Merseyside's Objective 1 programme." Also we dropped Hawkpoint 9 months ago - the Sunday Telegraph probably "learned" of it by reading it in another newspaper over a week ago e.g. The Daily Post, March 30th "Corporate finance adviser James Dow, who runs his own corporate finance firm Dow Schofield Watts and who has previously advised Everton, Barcelona and Ajax, said the timing of yesterday's announcement was likely to have more to do with Liverpool's recent switch of financial advisers. The club recruited the services of accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers to replace City investment group Hawkpoint last summer. Mr Dow said some advisers are more inclined to adhere to the letter of the City takeover code than others. "