Liverpool Echo. The last time the ECHO visited Charlie's four-bedroom Ilchester Road home, it was still a mid-terrace property between two tinned up houses - the only reminders of the old estate known as River Streets, so called because the streets were all named after British rivers.But what a difference four years makes.
The house is now a detached property after the removal of the two homes either side, the outside has been repainted, and Charlie no longer lives in splendid isolation but has a fresh set of neighbours as a new, 178-home estate springs up around him.The speed of the housing development took 70-year-old Charlie completely by surprise.He said: "I'd spent most of the last year in hospital.
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