Culture plans will forge ahead

Partners involved in the bid for Stoke-on-Trent to become UK City of Culture 2021 have vowed to forge ahead with the city’s cultural transformation plans despite not winning the title.

The news comes as the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport announced Coventry as the winner of the competition. Stoke-on-Trent was one of five shortlisted cities to make it to the final round of the competition.  

A number of partners have been heavily involved in the bid, which was led by the city council – including The Sentinel, Staffordshire University, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership, Alton Towers, Stoke City FC, Port Vale FC, JCB, KMF, B-Arts and New Vic Theatre among a host of others. Residents, artists and other organisations have also shown massive support for the bid.  

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