it was on the webiste, I couldn't tell you if it was in the paper or not:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/mostpopular.var..._we_need_it.php
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Zed, the reasons that I think Newcastle deserved it more:
I liked the way that the city centre's design merges the new buildings and the old buildings very well.
The view on the riverfront at night was stunning and full of pubs
The rail stations there took you everywhere there was on every corner of the town centre. It was ideal for us as my stepdad couldn't walk very far, in Liverpool you have James Street at one end , Lime Street and Central Station practically next to each other and Moorefields in the business district. Not very convenient.
People go on about the trafford centre being good where you can x brand for cheap, the metrocenter is much better as it is was both yuppy with the upmarket brands (Calvin Klein, G-Star etc.) and also had some of the 'working class' stores, poundland and sports soccer.
My favourite place was the gate (similar to the Fact except it feels less arty/snooty) - It had a cinema, four bars and two restaurants inside it.
It is a lot cleaner than liverpool (no chewing gum on the walls etc in the city centre), although this could be because eldon square had just had a renovation.
This is a strange one - When people were queuing for a bus they actually did so in single file, in birkenhead and in liverpool its everyman for himself. Because of what I'm used to here when i caught a bus to the metrocenter it looked surreal to me that people actually wait in single file.
The centre-for life museum was great
There were no hooded gangs/scallies anywhere
Everything in newcastle looks modern even though there are buildings, statues or roads that have been there for hundreds of years. Think of St. Georges hall when it was cleaned up by mowlem... every building is like that.
Also sorry to say this but St. James Park was world class which to many people is the heartbeat of the city. It has a train station underneath the stadium (in the station they had a legends walk with all their famous players having their own tiles on the wall - Keegan and Shearer are the only ones I can remember seeing and on platform the walls are black and white stripes to mirror the newcastle home kit), it has a pub inside the stadium called Shearer's bar.
It was also quite good because of the random statues around the city centre, think Lambanana but less comical and more 'classy'. One that stands out in my mind is as you come out of the train station there are 3 statues, one is standing normally, one is standing horiztonally and one is sitting down. I'll find a photo of it and put it up here.