Great news. And it seems the toys are out of the pram in Swansea too.

Billy Batten - your view took a hell of a beating!

The Rovers fans will soon be singing "we all hate Hull"

as always Karl I stand corrected great man it must be hard doing so much for somewhere he can't mention

Many congrats, Hull really is an underestimated and much (unjustly) derided city. I look forward to coming back 'home' even though it might only be a few weeks apart.
I've lived in the South now 24 years, 5 longer than I did in my city of birth but I'll always be a Hull lad and Black & white to the core.
Yes I really like where I live now as it is soooo quiet, low crime, no noise (relatively speaking) great schools (76% 5 A-Cs at my sons old comprehensive school) but there is bugger all here tbh.
Yes there are always elements we'd rather see eliminated in Hull but that is prevalent far more in other cities of the same size, there are a lot tier places to live in the UK, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and that god forsaken ehole that is London..
C'mon U Ullllllaaaahhhhhhh

I'm unbelievably proud at the minute.
Anyone who has visited Hull knows that it has plenty to do if you bother to look. You can easily lose a day or 2 in our museum quarter, The deep, Ferens etc.

I do sometimes wonder if the reason we always seem to do so badly is because of the city boundry being so small. I could be wrong but using Leeds as an example their more effluent areas are inside their boundry ours are not (Beverly, Cottingham, Anlaby, Hessle etc).
As an example Beverly won an award recently but how many not from this area would have made the connection to Hull? Not many I would imagine.

I will say one thing though, I can't see it going to our heads as folks in Hull don't act like that because as a general rule we are a pessimistic lot.

Only you could turn a thread like this into a Rovers/Hull thing. Well done on reaffirming what everyone thinks about you.

This should complete the re-generation work around Humber Street & Marina. I'm excited already.

Having not lived in Hull for over 4 years, but a frequent visitor I have seen massive improvements in Hull, certainly my area of work (education) seems to have improved hugely with a lot of investment. Newland and Princess avenue and now good places to eat and drink. Was really impressed with the things organsied in the last year such as Humber Street Sesh. I like St Stephens and the station, but the city centre itself is need of big improvements and hopefully this will be on he list for the city.

Should be back living in the area in a couple of years and cant wait to see the further improvements for the city.

Well done for all those involved in winning this bid.

Just ignore him, he moans about the Mods not doing anything when someone starts a thread non Hull related and spends the rest of his time by going off topic, trying to mock Rovers (or Ben Cockayne).

I hope you mean AFFLUENT...

Depends which side of Beverley you live at, Yorkshire Water having a few problems at the moment.

You are absolutely spot on. The boundaries of Leeds extend well into the countryside taking in many well off commuter villages wheras the affluent suburbs of Hull have always been (and wanted to be) in East Yorkshire.

This impacts particularly on educational attainment but also health, mortality, average house prices and other criteria used by the media and others to measure how desirable or not a place is to live in.

No doubt East Riding Council and businesses which are normally so keen to dis-associate themselves from Hull will be trying to jump on Hull's City of Culture bandwagon.

I did indeed.
I'm sat here chuckling to myself over that as I though it looked wrong at the time.

Indeed they will - I am off to the Pub to suss out opinion. Was asked recently by some-one there 'You don't really think Hull can get City of Culture do you' This from some-one who goes to City Hall, New Theatre and Husband goes to KC. I will be smirking