“Hullness was the word that they kept using...
“It’s about having the passion, the hunger and the creativity for something and getting on and doing your own thing no matter what anyone outside thinks.
“It’s about recognising that Hull has a great past but also that’s it’s also time to move on to something new and exciting.
“It was the same feeling when Liverpool bid to be European City Of Culture, and the same feeling we got from Derry when they bid to be City Of Culture back in 2010.
“It was a belief in their own city and a desire to tell the world a new story about what there city had to offer.
“Hull is the next one to take on that baton – and it will be hard work.”
“There was real understanding and appetite from all four short-listed cities for the sort of transformational change that a year of culture can bring,” he said.
“But ultimately it was the unanimous verdict of the panel that Hull put forward the most compelling case based on its theme as ‘a city coming out of the shadows’.
“This is at the heart of their project and reminds both its people and the wider world of both its cultural past and future potential".
Phil Redmond - City of Culture judging panel chairman
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