[News] City of Culture 2025 - the runners and riders

[Giraffe]

Who get's your vote? Derby shining out as the obvious winner I'd say

EDIT: Just spotted that Gillingham (included in Medway) is in with a shout as well. Oh dear.

This is the first year towns in areas have been able to combine for the bid. Disappointing that the cultural hub of Worthing, Findon and Ferring didn't put itself forward.

The full list of bidders for UK City of Culture 2025 is:

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
The City of Bangor and Northwest Wales
The Borderlands region, comprising Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders, Northumberland, Cumbria and Carlisle City
Bradford
Conwy County
Cornwall
Derby
County Durham
Lancashire
Medway
City of Newport
Powys
Southampton
Stirling
The Tay Cities region
Torbay and Exeter
Wakefield District
City of Wolverhampton
Wrexham County Borough
Great Yarmouth and East Suffolk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-58272630

 

[Easy 10]

Wolverhampton and Bradford

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Cornwall's a City then? Lancashire? Who knew? Schoolboy error not reading the question shirley?

 

[Swansman]

No Horsham?

 

[studio150]

Never realised that both Cornwall and Lancashire are in fact cities, so on that basis they should be joint winners, so that everyone can know they are in fact cities.

Also Lancashire should be thrown out of the County Championship.

 

[Baker lite]

Why is Barking not in the running, spent a weekend the last month..
Beautiful [emoji1362]

 

[BN9 BHA]

Please let it be Medway

 

[BN9 BHA]

Why is Barking not in the running, spent a weekend the last month..
Beautiful [emoji1362]

Barking, they named it after you……

 

[Mackenzie]

Newport!

 

[Albion Dan]

Wolverhampton and Bradford

Would think Bradford is in with a good shout to win. Ticks the multi cultural boxes and they always pick somewhere that will benefit from the regenration the award brings.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Jesus ****ing Christ. What’s the criteria for this nonsense?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Stoke and Burnley might as well throw their hat in the ring

 

[Baker lite]

Barking, they named it after you……

I enjoyed my weekend of culture there..

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Come on Cornwall

 

[albionalbino]

It's handed out to cities that are in need of some regeneration and aspire to become cultural hubs rather than reward achievements in culture.

 

[Gwylan]

Would think Bradford is in with a good shout to win. Ticks the multi cultural boxes and they always pick somewhere that will benefit from the regenration the award brings.

Yeah, Bradford looks the clear leader to me.

The home town of David Hockney, JB Priestley and the Brontes. Home to the National Photographic Museum, contains one of the first Imax cinemas. It's got four theatres, an art gallery and as Dan says, ticks plenty of multicultural boxes

 

[banjo]

Newport!

It’s tidy, truth be told.

 

[MattBackHome]

Excellent thread, and one which needs to be kept alive as the competition continues.

Is there any grudge between Conwy and Bangor?

My vote goes to Great Yarmouth out of that lot. Home of the first ever aerial bombing in history = CULTURE

 

[Eeyore]

A vote for Torbay. The old boy is in need of a spruce up. Paignton has never been the same since Abba stopped going there for Seaside Special.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I've nominated Preston Park. And Scotland