More that of a
down-at-heel town somewhere in the developing world.
After being rejected from several communities in South Wales, the latest being Ewenny Road, Bridgend, T-Mobile presumes it can come to "
down-at-heel Splott" and get away with it.
An imaginative scheme, with housing and retail, will help to transform a particularly
down-at-heel part of Birmingham and provide fresh ammunition for the council to refute criticism that regeneration on the edges of the city centre has slowed to a snail's pace.
Albert Park manager, Stuart Johnston, said: "The days when our parks where tired,
down-at-heel and uninviting are long gone.
The city centre was at that point slipping into a down-market,
down-at-heel place.
The cult Channel 4 comedy series was written by the brilliant Peter Kay, who also played the starring role as Brian Potter, proprietor of a
down-at-heel northern working men's club.
Glyn Williams, the vice-chair of Holyhead Chamber of Trade, said the town has been
down-at-heel for many years as it has failed to take advantage of the number of visitors using the port.
Ushering the visitor into the main gallery space was another customized
down-at-heel stick of furniture, Lucia Nogueira's Untitled, 1992, made up of two buckled shelves, three nails, and a pushpin.
It was a converted carpet store in a
down-at-heel West Palm Beach neighborhood.
It tells the story of
down-at-heel Bunnington WI, where dwindling membership means they can barely afford the hall, let alone a decent speaker.
MacLeod - saw Ian Hart portraying John Lennon...as a
down-at-heel 50-year-old who walked out on The Beatles in 1962.
The vision is to redress the decline in Gateshead over recent decades which has resulted in poor modern development in an urban core that is generally regarded as
down-at-heel.
And it's all the better for it too, as George Clooney smoulders to perfection as a
down-at-heel fixer called in to handle a spot of damage limitation when a colleague suffers a nervous breakdown during a high profile case.
Following a
down-at-heel performance at the world premiere in New York - where he turned up wearing muddy shoes, right - it seems Depp had decided to invest in a brush and some Cherry Blossom.
It's a refreshing change when things go pear-shaped on the opposite side of the counter, and the
down-at-heel shoes are on the other foot.