Google earth defaulting to old imagery?

I’m hav­ing a weird prob­lem with the new ver­sion of Google Earth. Look­ing near me in Manchester, it’s default­ing to an old image set – around 2004 or so – when they have later images available.

Let me show you:

This is the default image of a street corner near where I live. I hadn’t paid much atten­tion to it until now. But using Google Earth’s new fea­ture to go back in time, I star­ted to look more closely.

This is the same corner from a set of images from 2005. It’s clear to see the site has been cleared, ready for re-building.

But here we are, look­ing at the 2003 image set — and it’s exactly the same as the default view.

This is clearly wrong — Google def­in­itely has more up-to-date images than the ones they are show­ing by default for Manchester. Has any­one else had this prob­lem? Can oth­ers check their loc­ale to see if there are prob­lems where they live too?