Liverpool’s great St George’s Hall offered a splendid setting for the event at which Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for Media and Culture, offered thanks and encouragement to the people who had made such an effort to deliver the 2008 European Capital of Culture programme. Volunteers and officers alike congregated to hear the Culture Secretary say well done, and to muse on the challenges of 2009. This he opined, as do many of us, is only the beginning…

So, after the celebrations, the thank yous and, no doubt, the elaborate analyses of all that’s comprised Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008, what, we wonder, will happen next…?

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