Is it? I understand the term "city" to be roughly equivalent to German "Stadt". It's equally a title that some places get to have, while others don't. Many places try to get the title, one of the recent successful ones being Jüchen. The biggest place that isn't a Stadt is Seevetal near Hamburg, while the smallest "Stadt" is Arnis, which has 300 people in it. "Großstadt" is just any "Stadt" that has more than 100,000 inhabitants.
No, neither is Letchworth Garden City
While Elgin was a Royal Burgh and styled itself as a city, having a pre-Reformation cathedral, the 1975 Scottish local government reforms explicitly identified just six settlements as cities and so it lost any claim on city status at that point. Elgin City FC was founded in 1893, over 80 years earlier. As for Brechin City FC, the club was founded on City Road in the town, from which the name apparently derives, rather than from any inflated civic sense.How about Elgin City and Brechin City?
Not four? Given Perth lost its city status in 1975 and only regained it in 2012 and the only other recorded Scottish city, outside the Big 4, was Elgin in the early 1970s. (Leaving only Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen as cities until Inverness was granted status in 2000, followed by Stirling in 2002.)
I expect the main changes are that local politicians will receive even more taxpayers money in their pay packets.
I do wonder if Colchester will like no longer being Britain’s oldest recorded town.As per the title, 8 new cities have been announced including Stanley in The Falklands & Douglas in the Isle of Man.
Other towns listed in the BBC article are:
(and living in a town that had bid for City Status in this latest round, I'm not bitter!
- Milton Keynes
- Dunfermline
- Bangor
- Wrexham
- Colchester
- Doncaster
)
I assume they submitted a bid just like everyone else.
Indeed they did, with letters of support from 17 Essex MPs. Through my work I sit on various Essex local government groups and, after Southend was granted city status following the death of David Amess MP, few of us locally felt Colchester stood much of a chance. However the bid was clearly a compelling one and we are all delighted for our colleagues in the north of the county whose hard work over the years has finally paid off.
On the other hand, they might think of it as a last throw of the dice by a government which would do nothing to resist should Argentina send a platoon to plant their flag in Port Stanley and announce they were now in charge. Better to let sleeping dogs lie imo.
There's next to zero chance that Argentina would attempt another invasion any time soon. For one thing there are (or at least were) around 1,000 Army personnel based there, plus a permanent RAF presence.
There'd be posturing, nothing more. Maybe they'd send Sir Geoffrey Cox to bellow at them, if he was sufficiently remunerated. Actually, that might do the trick: a few hours of that would cause any sane person to seek escape.
That's assuming that the Argentinians were able to take the islands in the first place. There are enough troops on the island and air defence assets in place to make it difficult for them to do so - certainly more than the couple-dozen Marines based there in the 1980s. Not to mention that a Typhoon vs Skyhawk air battle isn't going to end well for the attacking force.
Not to mention two aircraft carriers (though IIRC, only one of them has an air fleet at present).
MK City will have played at Manor Fields in Blethcley ( actually Fenny Stratford) in 1979 so I tip my hat.
