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September 30, 2004

Edinburgh aspires to be UNESCO world city of literature

Edinburgh is being promoted as the first UNESCO World City of Literature, focusing on the Royal Mile. This is presumably to attract tourists rather than writers, but nevertheless seems a good, appropriate idea:

news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1141432004

Posted by Simon Holledge at September 30, 2004 02:00 PM

Comments

Sounds a perfectly legitimate and magnanimous aim - Edinburgh as the centre for UNESCO

Thanks for comments on the Boris Johnson site - you are quite a charmer, Simon Holledge - not sure if we can live up to your accolade!

Melissa

Posted by: Melissa at September 30, 2004 11:13 PM

Thank you, It's quite an honour to be blogged by Boris Johnson's Parliamentary Secretary! You are obviously enjoying all the feedback on your site. That's great. Keep up the good work!

Posted by: Simon Holledge at October 1, 2004 12:15 AM