Four new Golden Jubilee cities

Four new Golden Jubilee cities

Friday, January 18, 2002

England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales will each see one new town elevated to city status as part of the Queen's 2002 Golden Jubilee celebrations. The news will come as a boost for those towns that felt aggrieved at missing out on the Millennium awards, which saw Brighton & Hove, Inverness, and Wolverhampton make the grade and earn the right to call themselves a city. Milton Keynes and Swindon were two of the narrowly edged out contenders that will probably be looking to reapply this time around.

There are three main criteria for the competition, on which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has been consulted:

Notable features of regional or national significance.
Historical and royal features.
A forward-looking attitude.

In addition to this, an existing city is to be granted the pleasure of its own Lord Mayor, whose job it is to shake hands with visiting luminaries, and generally be a figurehead and spokesman for the city. This award is likely to go to one of the older cities, as the Queen has decreed that cities of less than 10 years' standing are unlikely to be considered, unless they meet the criteria of having "character and dignity" and a "quasi-metropolitan position in its region or sub-region".

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