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UK CITY OF CULTURE 2017 - The UK City Of Culture has been awarded to the city of Kingston Upon Hull. UK City of Culture is a designation given to a city in the United Kingdom for a period of one year. The aim of the initiative, which is administered by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, is to "build on the success of Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture 2008, which had significant social and economic benefits for the area". The inaugural holder of the award will be Derry~Londonderry in 2013 with Kingston Upon Hull being awarded the city of culture status for 2017. - After 2013, the next UK City of Culture will hold the title during 2017. Officials from Aberdeen have stated they will bid for the title, as have officials from Dundee, while local officials from Colchester,Derby, Leicester, Plymouth,Stoke-on-Trent,Swansea, Hull, and York  have also suggested that those cities may bid for the 2017 title. On 18 April 2013, the Hampshire Chamber of Commerce announced that Portsmouth and Southampton were making a joint bid for the 2017 title. There is also a bid from East Kent (Canterbury, Ashford, Folkestone, Dover and Thanet), and another from Hastings and Bexhill-on-Sea, supported by celebrity Graham Norton. In June 2013 the shortlist of four bids from Dundee, Hull, Leicester and Swansea Bay was announced. The winner of the 2017 title was announced on 20 November 2013 and Hull was chosen. Phil Redmond decided the winner with 8 other judges, choosing the city he is most interested in. --- Derry~Londonderry won the 2013 city of culture over Birmingham, Norwich, Sheffield and was announced on 15 July 2010 Hull has won the bid for the 2017 city of culture over Dundee, Leicester, Swansea Bay and was announce on 20 November 2013 -