The concrete jungle
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To mark Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, eight towns within the UK's nations are being conferred city status. These include the concrete eyesore that is Milton Keynes, in Buckinghamshire. The town is so visually uninspiring that the BBC's article is illustrated with a photograph of its football stadium under floodlight. (LOL)
Best known derisively for its concrete cows, Milton Keynes was created in 1967 to accommodate the London overspill. Apparently, it has 1,100 listed buildings. All built within the last 55 years.
This says more about the looseness of the UK's criteria for listing buildings, than anything else. (oldman)
Don't cry for me, Argentina
In what might be seen as a little diplomatic nose-thumbing at Argentina, if not a flat-out phuque-ewe, Stanley on the Falkland Islands is another of the conferees. Argentina, apparently, still has ill-feelings over the Falklands War, even forty years on.
But at least the BBC was able to find a more compelling photograph to encourage a visit to Stanley than to Milton Keynes.
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