On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:18:20 -0000, "IMM" wrote:



It was an overspill for London, but not a commuter town. It has enough
industry of its own and companies are still locating to there. It is no
dormitory city. It is now a city. Well the signs say City Centre
everywhere.

It's a pseudo-city like Reading. The buses and road signs there try
to have you believe that it is. As far as I was aware, that requires a
royal decree and a cathedral, not a vote by a Noolabah local council
exceeding its authority.

What constitutes a city is rather silly. The smallest city in the UK is a
village, because it has a cathedral. Some towns are larger than some
cities, etc. A city should be by size, and size alone. Once the size drops
then it becomes a town. The Queen should have nothing to do with it.
Preston was recently made a city with a population that would have fitted
into the old Odsel rugby stadium.


I prefer it to be the traditional way, and certainly not based on what
a town council thinks it might like to do.




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