Using the latest data available WWF has calculated when residents of British cities will have consumed their fair share of natural resources for 2008 – or when their ecological debt day is.

City	Ecological debt day
Winchester	10 April
St Albans	13 April
Chichester	14 April
Brighton & Hove	14 April
Canterbury	17 April
Oxford	17 April
Southampton	21 April
Durham	22 April
Cambridge	23 April
Portsmouth	23 April
Edinburgh	23 April
Chester	24 April
Aberdeen	24 April
Ely (East Cambs)	26 April
Hereford (County of Herefordshire)	28 April
Stirling	28 April
London	29 April
Lichfield	29 April
Lancaster	30 April
Newcastle upon Tyne	30 April
Wells (Bath and NE Somerset)	1 May
Bath (Bath and North East Somerset)	1 May
Ripon (Harrogate)	2 May
Manchester	2 May
Inverness (Highland)	2 May
Preston	2 May
Norwich	2 May
Peterborough	2 May
Dundee City	3 May
Leeds	3 May
York	3 May
Sheffield	3 May
Derby	4 May
Carlisle	4 May
Leicester	4 May
Worcester	4 May
Bangor (Gwynedd)	4 May
St Davids (Pembrokeshire)	4 May
Nottingham	4 May
Liverpool	4 May
Bristol	5 May
Birmingham	5 May
Lincoln	5 May
Bradford	5 May
Glasgow	6 May
Cardiff	6 May
Exeter	6 May
Coventry	7 May
Swansea	8 May
Salford	8 May
Wolverhampton	8 May
Truro (Carrick)	8 May
Sunderland	8 May
Wakefield	9 May
Gloucester	9 May
Stoke on Trent	10 May
Kingston upon Hull	10 May
Salisbury	10 May
Plymouth	11 May
Newport	11 May

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