Andy_W
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Platinum Jubilee: Eight towns to be made cities for Platinum Jubilee
Locations including Milton Keynes, Dunfermline and Wrexham will be made cities in honour of the Queen.
www.bbc.co.uk
7 of those 8 smaller than Boro, most much smaller in most cases, none of them have a football team above League 2 level, one of them did try and steal one, but that didn't quite work out.
Apparently "Applicants had to show their cultural heritage and royal links.", all well and good if you like that sort of thing (I'm not fussed), but the only town bigger than us (Milton Keynes) is only 50 years old.