Does anyone know what is going on near the BPS petrol station on Laid Street? Police everywhere and the road is closed, people standing in the street and police helicopter?

Apparently someone has an axe in the flats opposite KFC and is threatening people with it.

Shoot him and get it finished, rubber bullet to the noggin won`t do any damage.

Woman held hostage after smashing his flat up.

Its a garden fork not an axe an suppose to of burst a gain main just your average idiot down them ways . Decent people are the minority

TVsays Laird Street closed both ways due to police incident at Mallaby Street.

Heard he is holding his girlfriend hostage and threatening to shoot. Been smashing windows apparently. Suarez throwing a tantrum?

Breaking news Laird Street closed after police incident

3:56pm Monday 22nd April 2013 in News

Laird Street is closed both ways due to a police incident at Mallaby Street.

The closure is affecting traffic between Birkenhead and Bidston.

Police advise drivers to avoid the area.

Dozens of residents are out in the street at the scene and there are reports of a man behaving eratically, smashing windows.

Around a dozen police and other emergency vehicles are in attendance.

More later...

irral globe website

I'm going down that way now, ill take a look......

Echo reporting man arrested after giving himself up, no hostage

no beers for him tonight

aressted for affray and criminal damage, affray can be a serious charge.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/echo-live/

He is supposed to have smashed the petrol station up and was threatening to ignite the fuel.Chicken would have been well done at the KFC.

I live close to Laird Street, I wondered why the police helicopter was hovering around earlier on.

Wow i came past the petrol station before and there was tape round some flats but also a ambulance came past me after which i assume was coming there.

Cannae say if it was going there or not but certainly it seemed like something was going on?

Its by the tennis centre and the car cleaning place.

Someone told me that in the flats (by the North Star) a bloke was holding his girlfriend hostage and had turned on the gas and threatened to blow themselves up.
Also told that a tear gas had been shot through the window by the police.
May just be exaggerated

you are talking out of your backside, there are plenty of good honest decent people down there, the scumbags give the rest of the folks a bad name

As in any area a few bad apples in the barrel would make you think the rest of the apples are bad.
I live in the Northend and count quite a few there as decent and honest friends.

hear hear, RedLance and derekdwc, I have lived in the North End all my life and quite frankly, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. OK, it has its occasional "incidents" but show me a place that doesn't.

I always feel threatened when there to be honest, there's a not nice vibe about the place and all the tracksuits are very intimidating. This is from the point of view of a older person who grew up in a rural area though.

What have track suits got to do with anything? Lmao

they are ok as long as they match

seriously though I was brought up on Beaufort Rd right next to supposedly one of the worst streets in England, Tees St, and must admit it is nowhere near as bad as people make out.

Lived all over the world and UK and came back to the North End to retire. Mostly good folks with the odd bad ass. Oops! the same as everywhere else, no better no worse.

I was brought up in Tees Street, lived there for almost 40 years in fact, and for most part, they were some of the nicest neighbours you could ever meet. I'd probably still be living there now if the Council hadn't decided to pull it down in 1994.

People that wear them are usually people youd not waant to be friends with

at least it is tracksuits and not walking round in pyjama's and onesies like round here of Peel Avenue estate. Girl pushing pram went into chip shop today with her kids all where in their pyjamas at dinner time in public ll