City of Culture 2025 Announcement in Coventry - Video and audio transcripts

So we've literally just heard at the assembly festival gardens that the UK City of Culture 2025 has gone to Bradford. You know from our perspective in Coventry it's a bizarre feeling because the journey started seven years ago and here we are now handing over to another great city that would take it on and yet all those emotions from when we were lucky enough to get it come flooding back but Bradford got a lot of fun enjoyment bringing communities together which I know they will celebrating diversity but we've got a lot of hard work as well because the job starts now to really deliver the program think about what it is going to make them unique in Bradford they'll be different from Coventry, different from Hull, different from Derry and they should be so I think they've got a lot to look forward to for a lot of hard work. My thoughts are for the other three: Wrexham, Durham and Southampton have done amazingly and I know they'll pick up culture now and deliver regeneration on the back of it.