A poll we held on Friday showed users of This is Hull and East Riding were split almost exactly down the middle on whether the council was right to scrap Hull’s big screen. We asked:
“Hull City Council leader Carl Minns last week defended scrapping Hull’s big screen in February because it was “a waste of taxpayers’ money”. We asked you, with many cities showing World Cup games on big screens, was it was right to get rid of ours?”
49 per cent said – ”Yes: We were right to scrap the big screen”;
But 51 per cent said – ”No: We should have a big screen for the World Cup”.
Read the story here.
In another recent poll we asked whether a new initiative called Half Past the Weekend, to bring live music to the Princes Quay area, would encourage people to spend more evenings in Hull city centre. We asked:
“The Half Past The Weekend campaign features live music, discounts and vouchers. Will you spend more evenings in Hull city centre as a result?”
42 per cent said they would definitely spend more evenings in the city centre;
25 per cent said they would give it a go;
13 per cent said the campaign would make no difference to where they chose to go out;
20 per cent said they’d never go out in the city centre.
Thanks for voting – look out for more polls on This is Hull and East Riding.
