Perth Regains Its City Status
Perth - where I've lived for almost four and a half decades - is an ancient Royal Burgh in Central Scotland. Renowned locally, nationally and internationally, as the 'Fair City', it was a former Scottish Capital during mediaeval times. Indeed, throughout the ensuing centuries - and in the minds of its countless generations of inhabitants since - Perth ranked as second in civic importance only to Edinburgh.
Until 1975, that is ... when, Local Government Reorganisation north of the Border, led to Perth being stripped of city status.
Now, in the year of HM the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, a long, hard-fought battle has been won ... and 'Saint John's Toun' can reclaim its rightful heritage - steeped in the Annals of Scotland - as the City of Perth.
Originally Posted by Arthur Little
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... great minds think alike, eh?
... Joe - of all people - WOULD know that, I suppose!
and also St. Asaph in Wales 
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you could have waited a bit b4 answering 
, you should know anyway being a manc 
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... WOW!!
... if an extract from a press article by the Essex Chronicle's chief reporter is to be believed:
