It was the proximity of Withernsea that swayed the judges decision.



When you've worked and lived away you appreciate that our city and most of it's inhabitants are cock-on.
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Well thats a kick in the Nuts for those that slag this city off all the time

Come on u Ull

Great news. Hopefully we'll put a good show on

Superb news for the City.

Well done to all those involved.

Where is Billy Batten - Dundee are a shoe in - oh wait a minute Hull - City of Culture 2017. Eat Cake

WELL DONE THE CITY OF HULL

Does your bookie rub his hands when you step over his threshold?

Brilliant for the City and absolutely wonderful news for everyone in the region and great to see Adam buying into it and celebrating it immediately www.hullfc.com/article/31643/hul ... lture-2017 I await Mr Allams response!

Brilliant for the City and absolutely wonderful news for everyone in the region and great to see Adam buying into it and celebrating it immediately www.hullfc.com/article/31643/hul ... lture-2017 I await Mr Allams response!

This is great news for everyone who lives or works in the city. After years of being sh@t on at last we've got some recognition and 12 months in the spotlight.

I'm not naive enough to believe it will transform life in Hull overnight, but I really can't see a downside to it so let's embrace it and enjoy it and stop running the place down for a change.

rumours citculating of it being renamed Tiger of culture 2017

too true, well said.

Quote ="The Dentist Wilf"Brilliant for the City and absolutely wonderful news for everyone in the region and great to see Adam buying into it and celebrating it immediately www.hullfc.com/article/31643/hul ... lture-2017 I await Mr Allams response! '" Dont be so bitter to him Pete, without him and everything hes done for HUll we'd never have won it.

Quote ="The Dentist Wilf"Brilliant for the City and absolutely wonderful news for everyone in the region and great to see Adam buying into it and celebrating it immediately www.hullfc.com/article/31643/hul ... lture-2017 I await Mr Allams response! '" Dont be so bitter to him Pete, without him and everything hes done for HUll we'd never have won it.

Quote ="The Dentist Wilf"Brilliant for the City and absolutely wonderful news for everyone in the region and great to see Adam buying into it and celebrating it immediately www.hullfc.com/article/31643/hul ... lture-2017 I await Mr Allams response! '" He'll demand he gets a shiny plaque and the KC or He'll petion the govt to re-award it to Melton.

Quote ="The Dentist Wilf"Brilliant for the City and absolutely wonderful news for everyone in the region and great to see Adam buying into it and celebrating it immediately www.hullfc.com/article/31643/hul ... lture-2017 I await Mr Allams response! '" He'll demand he gets a shiny plaque and the KC or He'll petion the govt to re-award it to Melton.

Great news. And it seems the toys are out of the pram in Swansea too.

Billy Batten - your view took a hell of a beating!

The Rovers fans will soon be singing "we all hate Hull"

as always Karl I stand corrected great man it must be hard doing so much for somewhere he can't mention

Like it

Many congrats, Hull really is an underestimated and much (unjustly) derided city. I look forward to coming back 'home' even though it might only be a few weeks apart.
I've lived in the South now 24 years, 5 longer than I did in my city of birth but I'll always be a Hull lad and Black & white to the core.


Yes I really like where I live now as it is soooo quiet, low crime, no noise (relatively speaking) great schools (76% 5 A-Cs at my sons old comprehensive school) but there is bugger all here tbh.
Yes there are always elements we'd rather see eliminated in Hull but that is prevalent far more in other cities of the same size, there are a lot tier places to live in the UK, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and that god forsaken ehole that is London..
C'mon U Ullllllaaaahhhhhhh

I'm unbelievably proud at the minute.
Anyone who has visited Hull knows that it has plenty to do if you bother to look. You can easily lose a day or 2 in our museum quarter, The deep, Ferens etc.

I do sometimes wonder if the reason we always seem to do so badly is because of the city boundry being so small. I could be wrong but using Leeds as an example their more effluent areas are inside their boundry ours are not (Beverly, Cottingham, Anlaby, Hessle etc).
As an example Beverly won an award recently but how many not from this area would have made the connection to Hull? Not many I would imagine.

I will say one thing though, I can't see it going to our heads as folks in Hull don't act like that because as a general rule we are a pessimistic lot.

Only you could turn a thread like this into a Rovers/Hull thing. Well done on reaffirming what everyone thinks about you.

This should complete the re-generation work around Humber Street & Marina. I'm excited already.

Having not lived in Hull for over 4 years, but a frequent visitor I have seen massive improvements in Hull, certainly my area of work (education) seems to have improved hugely with a lot of investment. Newland and Princess avenue and now good places to eat and drink. Was really impressed with the things organsied in the last year such as Humber Street Sesh. I like St Stephens and the station, but the city centre itself is need of big improvements and hopefully this will be on he list for the city.

Should be back living in the area in a couple of years and cant wait to see the further improvements for the city.

Well done for all those involved in winning this bid.

Just ignore him, he moans about the Mods not doing anything when someone starts a thread non Hull related and spends the rest of his time by going off topic, trying to mock Rovers (or Ben Cockayne).

I hope you mean AFFLUENT...

Depends which side of Beverley you live at, Yorkshire Water having a few problems at the moment.

You are absolutely spot on. The boundaries of Leeds extend well into the countryside taking in many well off commuter villages wheras the affluent suburbs of Hull have always been (and wanted to be) in East Yorkshire.

This impacts particularly on educational attainment but also health, mortality, average house prices and other criteria used by the media and others to measure how desirable or not a place is to live in.

No doubt East Riding Council and businesses which are normally so keen to dis-associate themselves from Hull will be trying to jump on Hull's City of Culture bandwagon.