But all in all it was a case of after the Lord Mayor's show.
Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Councillor Freda Salway, will launch the book at City Hall.
Now he's the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and has been telling Newsround his story.
The character most closely aligned with the gambler personality in the story is the Lord Mayor.
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Ultimately Scrooge did what neither the Lord Mayor nor anyone else in the story could.
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The lord mayor's Mansion House, in Fernwood Avenue, Jesmond, was broken into overnight from Monday to Tuesday.
Former Belfast lord mayor Sammy Wilson accused Sinn Fein of insulting the memory of those who died.
It seems that London Lord Mayor Johnson has, in no uncertain terms, advised Brussels dictators to desist.
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David Wootton, former Lord Mayor of the City of London, and consultant David Lloyd are giving evidence.
The weather caused a fireworks display for the Lord Mayor's parade in London to be called off.
His funeral will be a full civic event attended by the Lord Mayor of Canterbury and councillors.
Presentation ceremonies are performed daily and recipients must swear an oath to the Queen and the Lord Mayor.
Zeta Jones is also expected at the dinner, which is being hosted by Cardiff Lord Mayor Russell Goodway.
The UK's youngest council leader is Sinn Fein's Niall O Donnghaile, 25, who is lord mayor in Belfast.
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The current lord mayor is Sammy Wilson of the anti-Agreement Democratic Unionist Party.
Presentations are usually made before the Lord Mayor and accompanied by a banquet.
The Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Ann Castle, will light a commemorative candle.
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He was accompanied by the US special envoy Richard Haass, US Consul Barbara Stephenson and Belfast Lord Mayor Jim Rodgers.
He also said that traders have asked for a meeting with Belfast's Lord Mayor Gavin Robinson to discuss the situation.
The Lord Mayor of Oxford has been censured for making a remark towards a 13-year-old girl using the word "sexy".
The Lord Mayor of Boston, in Lincolnshire, invited 100 American servicemen to be his guests for a modest wartime dinner.
The Lord Mayor of Newcastle's official coach, which is more than 200 years old, is being put up for sale.
The Deputy Lord Mayor of Armagh, Sylvia McRoberts, has also been made an MBE for her services to local government.
It was also announced that the city's ceremonial lord mayor, councillor Peter Main, was to receive treatment for prostate cancer.
Speaking outside Belfast City Hall, the DUP's Nigel Dodds said unionists were determined not to help the new lord mayor.
The move opens the way for another candidate to become lord mayor - probably Jim Rodgers of the Ulster Unionist Party.
Former lord mayor of the city, Alban Maginness of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, said the unionist position was inconsistent.
In London the Lord Mayor at once announced a Mansion House Fund, and his appeal has already received a liberal response.
This paved the way for an electoral pact which led to the election of Belfast's first Nationalist Lord Mayor, Alban McGuinness.
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When he was elected Belfast's first republican lord mayor earlier this month, Mr Maskey pledged to work for equality for all.
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