No, that is your opinion. It's not "definite".

I'd like to see Hull win it. Having lived in Spain, London and Bristol, and I really do travel the country and Europe quite a lot (Amsterdam yesterday, Croydon today, Edinburgh next week) I have to say the city has a lot of offer.

The city centre needs a clean up frankly, but I can show you a dozen or so city centres that are worst, not least Croydon were I am now. However what we do have is a fantastic museum quarter with genuinely great places to visit like the Transport Museum, the History Museum and Art Galleries. We have a rich maritime history, a rich English history and of course we have Wilberforce, which of course the video ends with "say yes to Hull, say yes to Freedom".

I have to say, and it may be a rather wishy washy sentiment, I do think we have some great, salt of the earth people that live in the city as well. My wife is from Bristol, which to be fair is a reasonably friendly city as well, and I remember when we first moved back her surprised comments of "people keep talking to me at the bus stop".

I actually don't think the video does a great job of portraying the city. I like its angle, the people, but for me it misses. I think it starts well with the Larkin quotes, and ends well with the "we are Hull, we are Freedom" but the comments from ordinary folk actually get a bit stereo typical for me and the video is a bit boring. I would have liked to have seen a bit more of Hull's dry humour and culture in there, like the Old Town and its history. Also a little more "21st century" in there as well, history is massively important, people hugely so, but also an eye to the future. The Deep, the schools (we have some great ones, it was with pride that I attended the House of Lords a few weeks ago with kids from Sentamu Academy for their presentation on Architectural Design), the University and the fantastic projects that go on there etc. But I'm all for the bid, and I very much hope that it does the job.

Fantastic news, well done to all involved in the successful bid.

Congratulations on being 2017 city of culture

My bum's a bit red today, is your face BB?


Wonderful news, this!

Hull is great.

The museums like Wilberforce, Transport etc, The Art Gallery is actually one of the best in the country, we are home to the anti slavery movement, the old town, great live music scene, great pubs, 3 major sport teams with international standard stadium.., great parks, finally great nutty people with a great dry humour... We have recently big improvements in infrastructure for example Sentamu and Sirus academies....

Let's use this to be more positive about our city, I hear to often people override all of the above and more with comments about a few shops being empty in the centre etc.

As I posted earlier in this thread, I travel the country every week. Hull has a lot to offer and fully deserves this award.

Great stuff this. Can only be positive

Great news and congratulations to all involved.

Brilliant news, can only be good for the city, re-generation, investment, put us on the map, hopefully give everyone a lift and stop us pulling ourselves down!

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

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