Comments on: Brighton hopes to entice gay American tourists

By: RobN

RobN — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:26:35 +0000

Lorna: Well these labourite councillor tossers will do anything to wreck traditional British values. Like when a University used to stand as a mighty academic establishment, not a grotty little concrete polytechnic in some provincial backwater.

Incidentally, St. David’s in Wales is not much bigger than a village, but it has a cathedral, and so is the smallest city in Britain. As for places like Birmingham and Leeds are just sh!tholes, and really don’t deserve it.

By: Lorna M

Lorna M — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:13:59 +0000

‘The definition of a city is it has to have a cathedral.’ RobN

Actually that’s not true anymore. Reading has been trying for years to get city status. That would mean that Reading can try without having an Anglican cathedral. There are others Birmingham and Leeds being a couple there are 18 cities without Anglian Catherdrals.

http://www.lovemytown.co.uk/Cathedrals/CathedralsTable3.asp will tell you more.

By: Brian Burton

Brian Burton — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:56:26 +0000

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By: Brian Burton

Brian Burton — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:43:00 +0000

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By: RobN

RobN — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:48:17 +0000

AngieRS: I was waiting for some pedant to pipe up with this one. The definition of a city is it has to have a cathedral. Unless there’s one up some back alley behind St. James’ St, I’d say they haven’t got one, so whatever their stuck-up pretentious council want to call it, it’s still a town.

So ner.

By: Brian Burton

Brian Burton — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:46:07 +0000

I used to live in Second Avenue in Hove but wooped it up in Brighton. I met my Life-Partner there and we still make sweet music!

By: Abi1975

Abi1975 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:30:10 +0000

RobN

In 1997 Brighton and Hove were joined to form the unitary authority of Brighton and Hove, which was granted city status by Queen Elizabeth II as part of the millennium celebrations in 2000.

By: AngieRS

AngieRS — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:09:03 +0000

Nah, RobN, it’s a city, says so on their brochures. Bet you’re from Hove, actually

By: Lorna M

Lorna M — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:07:03 +0000

God, took them long enough to come up with that one. Hopefully this can only mean that Brighton Pride won’t get the same issues they got last year and will secure Brighton Pride for the future.

By: RobN

RobN — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:05:27 +0000

Well if the council wants to promote the town (yes, it’s a town, not a city), it should fund Gay Pride, and not offer pokey cheapskate loans.