Author: Kasper de Graaf

Doncaster and Wrexham granted city status

St Giles Parish Church, Wrexham

The competition to receive civic honours was last run ten years ago to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and this year for the first time ever the competition for city status was open to applications from the Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories, with the Falklands’ Stanley and Douglas of the Isle of Man among the […]

Bradford is UK City of Culture 2025

Bradford City of Culture 2025

Congratulations are due to Bradford for a very exciting winning bid, and commiserations to Key Cities Southampton and Wrexham, and also County Durham, the other shortlisted contenders, who for the first time also receive some funding to take forward elements of their proposals. The winner was approved by Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries based on independent […]

Cities propose renewal of urban centres to level up UK

Key Cities

Key Cities and Core Cities UK – two networks representing 36 urban centres accounting for nearly a third of the UK’s people and jobs – have today published a new ‘inclusive renewal deal’ to level up the country and help cities recover from ‘Zoomshock’. The framework has been outlined in a new report, The Future […]