Call for Lancashire to show ambition as City of Culture talks continue with days before deadline
The financial risk to Lancashire County Council of backing the county’s under-threat bid to be declared UK City of Culture 2025 is “not acceptable” in its current form.
Thursday, 15th July 2021, 11:15 pm
That was the message from the authority’s deputy leader as an attempt to force the Conservative administration to rethink its recent decision to pull out of the process failed.
Alan Vincent said that there was a question mark over how much other local authorities in the county were willing to contribute to the cost of the bid.
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