Advertisement Leicester 'City of Culture' bid Leicester has lost out in its bid to become UK City of Culture 2017. The announcement that Hull has made the successful bid was made this morning. Share Tweet Reddit
20 November 2013 at 9:49am Leicester culture plans will still go ahead A member of the City of Culture board has said that despite losing out on the 2017 title, plans for the city will go ahead anyway. Fiona Allan, CEO of Curve Theatre, told ITV News that some of the ideas created as part of the bidding process could happen as soon as next year. Last updated Wed 20 Nov 2013 Read more 25 updates Leicester 'City of Culture' bid UK Leicester City of Culture Share Tweet Reddit
Leicester to show off City of Culture bid highlights Despite missing out on becoming the UK City of Culture 2017, Leicester will still provide people with the highlights of its bid from 2014.
Will Leicester be crowned the City of Culture 2017? In the next few hours Leicester will find out if its bid to become the City of Culture 2017 has been successful or not.