About Cita

CITA was founded to promote the benefits of twinning to all sections of the local community. The formal links were naturally forged by the local councils of Clydesdale, Yvetot and Hemmingen, and civic exchanges take place from time to time. The main importance of twinning is in the contacts which take place in the community itself, and SLC provides financial aid and other encouragement to CITA to promote community twinning.

Clydesdale's twinning connections are used every year by schools, sports clubs, bands and local clubs and societies. Regular adult and youth group exchanges occur and many people of Clydesdale now have very close friends in Yvetot and Hemmingen.

Twinning in Clydesdale

Following earlier informal contacts between the town of Lanark and that of Yvetot in Normandy, a formal twinning charter was signed in 1975. Meantime, Yvetot had already been twinned with Hemmingen, a suburb of Hanover in Germany, for ten years - a fine example of the post-war reconciliation. When Clydesdale District Council (CDC) agreed to increase its support for twinning in the early 1980's, this led to a formal twinning with Hemmingen. The twinning links have remained following CDC's succession by South Lanarkshire Council (SLC) due to local government reform in Scotland. In 1998, a friendship link between Clydesdale and Kyjov, Czech. Republic was created following a trip to Yvetot.

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Town Twinning

Town Twinning began after the First World War and now plays an important part in world harmony. Twinning between communities throughout Europe is widespread, but twinning between British towns and cities further afield is becoming more common as important business links are created and as more is done to help the poorer nations of the world.

The European Union, for example, has encouraged existing twinning partners to form triangular relationships with Eastern European towns. For instance, Yvetot is twinned with both Hemmingen and Kyjov.

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