My home t̶o̶w̶n̶ city?!

[d000hg]

FTFY

No sailors at Marazion, other than kids with their dinghies. Not my thing.

[OwlHoot]

If Southend can become a city then anywhere can.

Southend, Basildon, and Romford are all merging into one vast megalopolis. So maybe it is appropriate.

Long gone are the days one could drive along the A127 and see nothing but mile after mile of fields.

[vetran]

I'd say the closest thing to red light district is me standing near the phone box propositioning sailors.

FTFY

[d000hg]

If it doesn't have a red-light district and a serious drug problem, you've got no chance. Just saying...

I'd say the closest thing to red light district would be the traffic lights, except there aren't any.

[TheDude]

We don't get many shootings in Cornwall, and that's the only way Marazion is going to get citified.

We don't get many shootings in Southend but the region is very stabby at the moment.

The many films loosely based on The Essex Boys Range Rover murders have unfairly stereotyped everyone from South Essex as ultra violent criminals.

In reality most are involved in questionable direct sales or Forex trading schemes.

[Mordac]

If it doesn't have a red-light district and a serious drug problem, you've got no chance. Just saying...

[d000hg]

I think they should rename it to "Marzipan". I've always thought about marzipan for some reason every time I've passed through it on the train. It can be the marzipan city.

People even in Cornwall can't agree how to pronounce the current spelling, I don't think they'll want to change it.

Most say Mara-zi-on to rhyme with Para but some insist on Mar-azion a bit like Meridien

[GJABS]

I think they should rename it to "Marzipan". I've always thought about marzipan for some reason every time I've passed through it on the train. It can be the marzipan city.

[d000hg]

If Southend can become a city then anywhere can.

We don't get many shootings in Cornwall, and that's the only way Marazion is going to get citified.

[SueEllen]

If Southend can become a city then anywhere can.

[d000hg]

Grumpy old so and so

I think they said applying was a fun idea, not being accepted. It's got them some good PR for nowt, well done

[northernladuk]

Tamsin Woodhead, who runs Morva Marazion gift shop in the town, said applying for city status was a "fun idea" which would bring more visitors year round.

Fun idea? If the system allows 'fun ideas' to pass then the whole thing is broken. There should be some criteria and if you meet them you pass, if you don't you don't. Having an arbitrary process that just allows people to apply for fun with no tangible points makes the whole thing pointless surely.

They talk about a cathedral but that doesn't even matter. They got rid of that requirement in 1889 didn't they?

The last list for city status seems to be

A minimum population of 300,000
A record of good local government;
A “local metropolitan character”.

But it appears the last 24 towns granted city status did meet them. What's the point.

The whole thing is so broken seems a bit pointless.

[d000hg]

Tiny town, Marazion, bids to become UK's smallest city

A top story on the BBC today. I grew up about half a mile inland and own a flat just round the corner behind the phone box. Could it soon be a swanky city apartment?