Capital of Culture: LET US IN THE CULTURE CLUB; Why city's poorer communties say they're missing out in race to turn Liverpool into coolest capital of Europe.(News)

From: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) | Date: June 27, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: By TONY BARRATT ECHO Feature Writer

TWO years ago a jubilant Mike Storey roared: 'This is like Liverpool winning the Champions League, Everton winning the double and the Beatles reforming all on the same day - and Steve Spielberg coming to the city to make a Hollywood blockbuster about it.'

The city council leader's jubilation was entirely justified. He had led a recently downtrodden city to the title of European Capital of Culture 2008.

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