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How the ‘least cultured’ place in Britain reinvented itself

“Are you going to Macclesfield? Unbelievable! So jealous!” Absolutely no one said. When I told my friends where I was going all I got were mocking eyebrows: “Macclesfield? Why?” Maybe this was expected. This is, after all, a post-industrial town that Local Futures Group once branded the “least cultured” place in Britain. The group’s 2004… Read More »