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Article: Success or shambles?; GREAT DEBATE ON OUR BIG CENTENARY SQUARE CELEBRATIONS.
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- Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
- Article date:
- January 6, 2000
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Birmingham was billed as the place to be for the 'biggest and best' Millennium knees up. For thousands who crammed into Centenary Square it was a night to remember - but others were left bitterly disappointed, as STEVE SWINGLER reports.
NOW we've finally shrugged off our collective Millennium hangover and can look back at the big night in a more sober light, just how good were Birmingham's civic celebrations?
Did they live up to their enthusiastic billing as the 'Party of the Century' - or did they fail to do justice to the historic occasion?
With ...