In the beginning there were twelve. Then six finalists were short listed as the UK’s possible European City of Culture. And as we all know, the bid was finally won in June last year by Liverpool, whose plans for a spectacular 2008 are well underway.
15 Mar 2004
Judi Jagger
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In the beginning there were twelve. Then six finalists were short listed as the UK’s possible European City of Culture. And as we all know, the bid was finally won in June last year by Liverpool, whose plans for a spectacular 2008 are well underway.
The hopes of 11 cities were raised and these same cities could have felt that they had failed their residents. Expensive bids and great ideas lost forever – a bit like bidding for the Olympics, only a whole lot more personal.
Judi Jagger is a freelance writer who lives on 15 acres of rural isolation overlooking an island. She loves how the Internet can bring the world to her. When she does venture out, it is to the theatre and cinema and to visit galleries and bookshops. In a previous life she has been a teacher, a librarian, a cleaner (very, very briefly) and a hospital admissions clerk. The nicest thing anyone has told her was that she was “educated, not domesticated”. It was meant disparagingly. She will get round to putting it on a T-shirt one day.
