Of course, the money and thejobs it brings are rightly being hailed as transformational in a city that TheEconomist magazine last year charmingly suggested may as well be abandoned, and itsinhabitants relocated to more prosperous areas.

The same city will enjoy being in theheadlines for the right reasons today – one prominent local politician called it "quite simply, the biggest economic development in the long and proud history of Hull" – but so will the UK’s wind industry.

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