The 5th Worst City in the World 2009

Wolverhampton has been listed as one of the worst cities in the world on a travellers' website. The West Midlands city was number five on a list compiled by Lonely Planet, based on feedback from its website users. Detroit in the US was voted the worst city, followed by Accra in Ghana, Seoul in South Korea and Los Angeles, US. Lonely Planet said Wolverhampton was so bad it had not even made it on to the reviews of cities on its site. One correspondent compared it with the devastation of Ground Zero in New York.