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Article: Success or shambles? ; GREAT DEBATE ON OUR BIG CENTENARY SQUARE CELEBRATIONS
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- Evening Mail
- 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 the dust settled, it is clear that while thousands of
Brummies revelled in the organised events and firework displays,
there were also many who ...