Eight new cities created in Queen's honour
The Queen Elizabeth visited the Coast Guard station headquarters in Bangor, Northern Ireland, back in May 2009
Milton Keynes in England, Dunfermline in Scotland, Bangor in Northern Ireland and Wrexham in Wales all get the title. The Platinum Jubilee civic honours competition also required places to show how their local identity and communities meant they deserved to be granted city status. The last competition to win civic honours ran a decade ago to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. For the first time this year, Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories were allowed to apply.
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