Once a byword for grit and grime, where drivers turned on their car headlights midmorning to see through the haze of coal smoke, it has been designated a European capital of culture for 2010.

• 这个地方曾经被称为煤坑，灰尘漫天，上午开车都要打开车灯，现在它指定为2010年的欧洲文化之都。