There are only a few days to go until Chelmsford knows if it is to be a city for the 21st century.
MP Simon Burns has been told the official announcement is on Thursday, March 14
It comes as bookies William Hill now place Chelmsford in clear fourth in the Queen's Royal Golden Jubilee City 2002 competition
Twenty six towns in England entered the fray back in October.
Chelmsford has been the highest profile seeker of the accolade with a big local campaign all last summer, superb all-sector co-operation on the bid document and a petition and letter writing campaign to the Prime Minister and Queen and an on-going ennvirnonmental campaign "We've Cleaned Up For City."
Princess Elettra Marconi gave her support to Chelmsford's insistence that it is the world's Real Radio City as the place where major development and manufacture of the wonder of thew age was developed by her father and Chelmsford engineers and workers in a personal note to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Published Monday, March 11, 2002
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