3 New Cities Announced

Chelmsford
Perth
St Asaph

are all awarded City Status as part of the Diamond Jubilee

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Glad to see Northampton, a town with a population almost double those 3 combined, is still pushing for city status.

Oh wait.

/botheredlocal

Reply 2

Morgsie

I thought Reading would get it.

Reply 3

Tommyjw

Mate is from Chelmsford, he is pretty excited.. for some reason.

Reply 4

ChapelTom

Reading is worth of it but didn't get it! Shocked.

Perth is worthy.

Chelmsford City FC already think their team is in a city but St Asaph? What is it with these numpty Welsh places getting city status. This is nothing against Wales but surely there's other more worthy candidates?

Reply 5

Oh my Ms. Coffey

Not heard of any of them, nice!

Reply 6

JMustang95

Original post by Morgsie

I thought Reading would get it.

Me too, that's unfortunate.

Reply 7

Morgsie

Original post by JMustang95

Me too, that's unfortunate.

It was the bookies favourite aswell.

Reply 8

callum9999

I'd personally be quite annoyed if my town council spent £10k+ campaigning to become a city (which gives zero benefits - it's just a name, and apparently you can just declare yourself to be a city if you want to!) when there is countless other stuff that money could be spent on.

Reply 9

Mufasaa

Original post by callum9999

IIRC there's a few benefits like extra funding.

Reply 10

scriggy

I feel a bit sorry for Middlesbrough like. They could have done with it.

Reply 11

A level Az

Small population = City
Bigger population = No city

Seems legit.

Reply 12

Mufasaa

Original post by Champagne Supernova

Chelmsford, woop! About time :yes:

It has a cathedral, so there. :u:

Northampton's got a cathedral and a university, but didn't even bother applying. :frown:

Reply 13

helen-a-ravenclaw

Original post by Mufasaa

Glad to see Northampton, a town with a population almost double those 3 combined, is still pushing for city status.

Oh wait.

/botheredlocal

It always get me. Northampton is bigger than loads of cities and yet it's still a town...

Maybe it's because Northampton is a bit of a crap place?

/unbotheredlocal

Reply 14

foxo

Original post by Morgsie

St Asaph

I think the Queen is taking the piss somewhat. I'd never even heard of the place before venturing into this thread.

Reply 15

Shabalala

If they keep announcing new cities then there won't be any towns or villages left within 20 years

The only places that should be counted as cities are

London
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Manchester
Liverpool
Newcastle
Birmingham
Leeds
Belfast
Cardiff
Londonderry
Aberdeen
Swansea
Dundee
Sheffield

Reply 16

umop apisdn

Does city status even mean anything? :confused:

Reply 17

Einheri

Who even gives a crap? It's meaningless.

Reply 18

Mufasaa

Original post by helen-a-ravenclaw

It always get me. Northampton is bigger than loads of cities and yet it's still a town...

Maybe it's because Northampton is a bit of a crap place?

/unbotheredlocal

It's either us or Reading who's the biggest town, don't remember which.

All the locals who're like "We're a town and we should always be a town!" annoy me. So what? It's ****.