{"id":809903,"date":"2026-10-22T02:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809903\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T02:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:56:08","slug":"uk-city-of-culture-blackpool-milton-keynes-sheffield-and-wrexham-shortlisted-for-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809903\/","title":{"rendered":"UK City of Culture: Blackpool, Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Wrexham shortlisted for 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blackpool, Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Wrexham have been shortlisted to become the UK&#8217;s City of Culture in 2029. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winning location will be announced in May and will be the fifth holder of the title &#8211; following Derry-Londonderry, Hull, Coventry and Bradford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A different location is given the City of Culture title every four years. Each shortlisted city will now receive at least \u00a3125,000 from the government to do further work on their bid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The eventual winner will receive \u00a310m to deliver a year of cultural events and activities drawing on its &#8220;local strengths and stories&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said the shortlisted cities &#8220;have shown the pride that exists in their places with the incredible culture on their doorsteps&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three of the contenders are in England and one in Wales. They were chosen from a longlist of nine, which also included Inverness, Ipswich, Middlesbrough, Portsmouth and Swindon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The shortlisted cities are:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blackpool, Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Wrexham have been shortlisted to become the UK&#8217;s City of Culture in 2029.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-809903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}