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  The European Flag of Honour
Civic Celebration and FlagFest day.
19th & 20th October 2007.
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Select here for the full report
and pictures
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The European Flag of Honour
awarded to
Verwood & 3 Legged X Twinning
Association
on the 1st June 2007.
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On the 50th
anniversary of the European flag, the "Verwood &
Three Legged Cross Twinning Association", was one of
only 24, and the only UK municipality in Europe to be
awarded the "European Flag of Honour" this year.
Rushmoor in Hampshire was the only UK town to be awarded the
"European Diploma" which Verwood and 3LX was
awarded in 2005. Nuremberg won the overall 2007 "Europe
Prize".
Select
here for the Press Release
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European Diploma awarded to the
Verwood & 3 Legged X Twinning
Association
on the 22nd June 2005.
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 The European Diploma is awarded by the
Council of Europe for "promoting friendship between
people in Europe". The application from the Twinning
Association was made to Strasbourg in June 2004 by Catherina
Green and Verwood's mayor. Each year 30 Diplomas are awarded
and the European Diploma is the first award a town can
achieve.
The Committee is very proud of the fact that the work
Verwood has done in promoting the friendship between people
in Europe has been recognised. This was a great honour as
hardly any other towns in the UK had been given this honour.
Unfortunately neither the Mayor nor any Verwood town
councillor felt able to attend and so a small group of
Twinning Committee members went to Strasbourg (see photo
courtesy of H Green). The presentation was on the 22nd June
2005, at the "Palais de l'Europe", along with
representatives of twinning towns from Austria, France,
Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Serbia,
Montenegro, UK and the Ukraine. The official handing over of
the European Diploma took place in the Verwood Council
Offices, to the Mayor, on the 24th of June 2005.
The next goal for the "Verwood & 3 Legged X
Twinning Association" is the European Flag of Honour.
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