Nick
Administrator
Council defends Coventry's City of Culture legacy
A councillor insists the city is in a better position than it was despite financial crisis.
Not another bailout
I think you’re mixing up your idioms my friendIt came with the backdrop of COVID, I don't think this is the horse to beat them with.
They don’t learn do they.
Rather than looking a new ceo they should just end it
So what? They're running a city, you get some things right and some things wrong. Hindsight's a wonderful thing.
What you would hope is that they would have learnt that when something has run its course or not working end it don’t keep adding to the problems.
Are you generally not a fan of punctuation, or is it just on this occasion?
Just on this occasion.
I am glad you have worked very hard on your response though.
10/10
Assembly gardens owed £1.5m woahShock, reeves all over it. Trading when pretty much insolvent, tax payers money, people left owed money.
Sounds familiar...
Assembly gardens owed £1.5m woah
Unless the council covers their lossesI really liked assembly gardens. Was hoping it would come back, safe to say that's not going to happen.
Agreed, COVID was an utter disaster for it. The government should have provided greater support given the difficulties. In fairness to the council in this case it's understandable why they felt it necessary to provide support.It's really sad actually. I had a show already to go as part of the City of Culture. Theatre booked (Albany), cast ready, rehearsals in progress and then Covid hit.
The amount of money the city lost because of Covid was tremendous. They were counting on tens of thousands of people coming to the city for the the City of Culture event and no doubt they would have, but the pandemic and lockdown had a devastating effect and it really hit the city hard.
Yeah, sure, they had a delayed City of Culture start and it did go ahead in the end, but by then they had lost so much and so much damage was done and lots of events had been cancelled, never to reappear.
It was a great shame.
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