Hull: from crappest town to cultural icon

By Rob McFarland
Updated August 2 2015 - 1:08am, first published 12:15am

In 2003, readers of The Idler magazine voted Hull the UK's crappest town, beating off strong competition from Morecambe, Basingstoke and Liverpool. I doubt many of them had ever been to Hull, but that's incidental; Yorkshire's only maritime city has long been cursed by a perception of crapness.

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