Why County Durham should be awarded the 2025 'City' of Culture
Why County Durham should be awarded the 2025 'City' of Culture DURHAM has it all. Cathedral, castles and coast; city and country. The dark skies of the north Pennines and the bright lights of Lumiere. A county with a deep industrial heritage and the broadest moors, and the friendliest people with the widest smiles. It would be so appropriate for this unique county of immense diversity to become the first new style City of Culture in 2025. The rules now allow a wide group of communities to pool resources to bid, and a declaration in favour of Durham would bring the widest of cultures toget...