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Is there any real benefit to city status? Luckily for Reading, probably not

The town (sorry) has once again had its bid to become a city rejected, this time in a competition for the jubilee

Is there any real benefit to city status? Luckily for Reading, probably not
Eight towns have been made cities as part of the Queen’s Jubilee. Reading is not one of them | PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
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Bliss was it that dawn to be alive, but to be from Milton Keynes was very heaven.

On Friday 20 May, residents of the Buckinghamshire new town – the home of roundabouts, concrete cows and a thousand jokes about how at least yoghurts have culture – awoke to find they lived in a widely derided town no more.

They would live, from then on, in a widely derided city.