| While ISRM's guidelines, which were updated last year, are not law, Croydon Council is one of 12 London boroughs to have adopted them. | 
 
 
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| Open for just over a year it occupies a disused warehouse in one of London's poorest boroughs, Hackney. | 
 
 
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| Tomorrow is the last chance to register for the elections on May 2, when 174 English councils go to the polls, including all the London boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The course includes five boroughs in New York but doesn't go down to the district that has been devastated. | 
 
 
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| The blue-collar workers in the boroughs aren't allowed to touch stop signs or any street signage. | 
 
 
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| What brought these thousands of men, women and children from all five boroughs of New York, and from neighboring New Jersey as well? | 
 
 
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| But see, you never knew, because deuces became treys in the outer boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Impoverished boroughs of London fail to succeed in providing school facilities for their children. | 
 
 
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| The City of Toronto opts to provide streetcar service to its new boroughs itself under the Toronto Civic Railways name. | 
 
 
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| The action will mainly involve support staff in schools in around 13 of the 32 London boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Pooling efforts is a growing practice among Pennsylvania boroughs, townships and even school districts. | 
 
 
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| Focus on covering the five boroughs, for example, or eat and drink your way through Manhattan in a gastronomic tour de force. | 
 
 
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| The four year study was based in two inner London boroughs and delivered through a local voluntary sector charity. | 
 
 
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| I will defend the Green Belt, while working with London's boroughs to ensure that its potential is maximised. | 
 
 
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| The number of cameras in Bolton is comparable to other boroughs in Greater Manchester of a similar size. | 
 
 
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| A slightly later and more prolonged phenomenon was the growth of nascent boroughs in association with royal and baronial castles. | 
 
 
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| And in many of those boroughs, people depend on mass transit to get around, buses and subways. | 
 
 
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| It is located in the southeastern corner of the borough of Queens, one of the five boroughs of New York City. | 
 
 
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| There were recurrent scutages and tallages on demesnes, which included boroughs. | 
 
 
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| However, it is true that certain spaces, like the five boroughs of New York or London, England, are more multicultural than others. | 
 
 
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| Certain boroughs in that area are almost no go for my colleagues with shootings reported everyday. | 
 
 
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| It works well in Scotland and now, with PR for Scottish local elections, it breaks up the old Labour rotten boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Western democracies have had their own experience of rotten boroughs and tribal strongholds. | 
 
 
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| When the rival Norman and Anglo-Saxon boroughs amalgamated into a single administration, we cannot say. | 
 
 
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| Her methods were honed teaching in a string of primary schools in relatively disadvantaged London boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Loan default collections for borrowers in the five boroughs of New York City also will be put on hold automatically until January, Paige said. | 
 
 
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| His parent's were Swiss, and moved to set up a business in the eastern boroughs of London, where Ray was born. | 
 
 
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| It boasts well-staffed bureaus in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, and publishes special zoned editions for those boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Why are the central London boroughs at the top of the table for UK business enterprise? | 
 
 
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| The corn laws were repealed, the rotten boroughs were redistricted and the Whigs became credible contenders for power. | 
 
 
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| He returned to the USA in 1975 and in the same year he created a series of outdoor, environmental sculptures for five New York boroughs. | 
 
 
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| From statistics provided by Zusman, there are about 750 community gardens in about five boroughs of the City. | 
 
 
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| It was the most rotten of rotten boroughs, a place where the corrupt, the fraudulent and the freeloaders prospered. | 
 
 
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| The findings were detailed in a report released alongside reviews of more than 200 districts and boroughs across the country. | 
 
 
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| There are 16 places up for grabs on the youth forum, two for each of the county's districts and boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The research team worked with twelve adolescents from the five boroughs of New York City. | 
 
 
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| Its energy, and sometimes its direct support, spread into New York's five boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Police brotherhood boss Yves Francoeur is no fan of the public security officers that patrol 17 of the 27 island boroughs. | 
 
 
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| But modern life has moved beyond such administrative units as boroughs and as a result, the need for wardens has diminished. | 
 
 
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| Brooklyn, the home of 2.4 million citizens, is one of the largest of the five boroughs of the city of New York. | 
 
 
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| In boroughs political infighting became almost continuous, as rival factions fought for control of corporate institutions. | 
 
 
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| People bring in arrowheads from New York's five boroughs, snake skins from Central Park. | 
 
 
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| Lacking space the Council bought land from neighbouring boroughs to build municipal housing for its bombed out residents. | 
 
 
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| Smoking is likely to be banned in pubs, clubs and restaurants across Merton after the council joined the 32 other London boroughs in supporting a blanket ban. | 
 
 
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| In parliamentary boroughs with freeman franchises, the power to bestow the freedom was in effect a power to create electors, a consideration which clearly shaped its use. | 
 
 
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| Kingston was one of England's earliest parliamentary boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The Moveable Museum now travels to schools, community centers, parks, street fairs and other neighborhood organizations throughout the five boroughs of New York City. | 
 
 
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| Of course, Manhattan is only one of New York's five boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Staten Island is sort of the black sheep of the five boroughs. | 
 
 
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| True, the Tories lost ground significantly at the 1715 general election, but in pocket boroughs rather than in counties and popular urban constituencies. | 
 
 
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| The eggs are disbursed throughout the five boroughs and a citywide scavenger hunt ensues. | 
 
 
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| And we're in the process of expanding that right now by putting in an interop system that expands from Suffolk County into the five boroughs of New York City. | 
 
 
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| The strength of public feeling has led several residents to label it one of the dirtiest boroughs in London, putting the blame firmly at the council's door. | 
 
 
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| However, during the 1870s chief constables in both counties and boroughs began to assert and exercise a greater measure of professional independence. | 
 
 
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| The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads. | 
 
 
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| In 2000, 117 people committed suicide in the county, with boroughs in East Lancashire having some of the highest death rates from people killing themselves. | 
 
 
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| He and his heirs maintained a remarkable consistency in size and weight, and all coins were minted by strictly controlled moneyers in boroughs and other local centres. | 
 
 
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| Of New York City's five boroughs, only the Bronx rests on the continent. | 
 
 
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| On a basic level, we pay the highest council tax of all the boroughs of London and this is set to rise significantly yet our wishes are continually ignored. | 
 
 
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| The council admits that few boroughs charge for children's services. | 
 
 
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| Neighbouring schools and boroughs complained that brighter children were being creamed off, seriously disadvantaging those schools which were still genuinely comprehensive. | 
 
 
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| Some boroughs and counties are quite repressive and others are very open. | 
 
 
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| Yet many proponents of universal suffrage were just as deluded, in their own way, as the Adullamites who clung to their rotten boroughs as if civilisation depended on them. | 
 
 
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| The city government attempted to distribute sample trash bags and discount coupons during the trial period by utilizing the heads of local boroughs and neighborhoods. | 
 
 
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| She, along with four underwhelmed London boroughs, have decided to try whip up international interest in the East End by rebranding it under a new name. | 
 
 
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| The city's convoluted electoral system is riddled with rotten boroughs, giving some corporate voters 4,000 times more punch than the votes of ordinary citizens. | 
 
 
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| The White is actually made up of four districts, or boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Counties, boroughs and townships were imported from England. | 
 
 
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| The reception provided an opportunity for BME Councillors across the London boroughs to establish a network of support aimed at addressing the following key issues. | 
 
 
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| But he said primary schools in Rochdale still received less money than the schools in other metropolitan boroughs and the council was looking to increase the amount. | 
 
 
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| Currently operating in a number of London boroughs, the business offers various care packages ranging from a half-hour domestic call to 24-hour personal care plans. | 
 
 
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| The counties and county boroughs continue to exist for the purposes of lieutenancy and shrievalty. | 
 
 
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| However, many rotten boroughs remained and it still excluded millions of working class men and all women. | 
 
 
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| Second, the Bill reduced the Lords' power by eliminating many of their pocket boroughs and creating new boroughs in which they had no influence. | 
 
 
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| The Reform Act 1832 reduced the number of parliamentary boroughs by eliminating the rotten boroughs. | 
 
 
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| See Geography of New York City for additional climate information from the outer boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Manhattan Island is linked to New York City's outer boroughs and New Jersey by several tunnels as well. | 
 
 
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| In Wales the councils of the counties and county boroughs are responsible for education. | 
 
 
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| This however only existed until 1990, when the twelve inner London boroughs assumed responsibility for education. | 
 
 
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| The municipality of Tijuana is divided into eight administrative boroughs, or Delegaciones. | 
 
 
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| The Plantation of Ulster allowed English and Scottish Protestant candidates in as representatives of the newly formed boroughs in planted areas. | 
 
 
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| Not included were the county boroughs of Gateshead, South Shields and Sunderland. | 
 
 
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| Montfort sent his summons, in the King's name, to each county and to a select list of boroughs, asking each to send two representatives. | 
 
 
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| The list of boroughs which had the right to elect a member grew slowly over the centuries as monarchs granted charters to more English towns. | 
 
 
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| In the Boroughs, the electoral franchise varied and individual boroughs had varying arrangements. | 
 
 
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| In 1603, the antiquarian George Owen described it as one of five Pembrokeshire boroughs overseen by a portreeve. | 
 
 
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| The medieval boroughs of Goodrich and Chepstow, at each end of the Wye Gorge, may have originally been established at this time. | 
 
 
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| The boroughs are responsible for many activities that had previously been run by the central city. | 
 
 
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| In 2010, the borough system was restructured, in which many smaller boroughs merged into larger boroughs. | 
 
 
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| In 1965 the London boroughs of Bromley and Bexley were created from nine towns formerly in Kent. | 
 
 
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| County boroughs entitled to their own quarter sessions had a single recorder instead of a bench of justices. | 
 
 
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| Members of both houses made representations on behalf of counties and boroughs, and this led to an increase in the number of local authorities. | 
 
 
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| The Act also provided for certain financial adjustments between county boroughs and adjoining counties. | 
 
 
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| Some large towns, known as county boroughs, were politically independent from the counties in which they were physically situated. | 
 
 
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| The county boroughs of Swansea, Cardiff and Newport would be retained, but the small county borough of Merthyr Tydfil would become a district. | 
 
 
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| Some of the new counties were designated metropolitan counties, containing metropolitan boroughs instead. | 
 
 
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| Many existing boroughs that were too small to constitute a district, but too large to constitute a civil parish, were given Charter Trustees. | 
 
 
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| In England before the passing of the Act there had been 1086 urban and rural districts and 79 county boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Unlike the 1888 Act, the 1933 Act did not include county boroughs as administrative counties. | 
 
 
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| This condition was maintained with the expansion of urban districts and municipal boroughs. | 
 
 
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| In medieval England, boroughs were also entitled to elect members of parliament. | 
 
 
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| The Colombian Municipalities are subdivided into boroughs with a local executive and an administrative board for local government. | 
 
 
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| Several new municipal boroughs were formed in the new industrial cities after the bill enacted, according to the provisions of the bill. | 
 
 
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| However, the civic traditions of many boroughs were continued by the grant of a charter to their successor district councils. | 
 
 
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| While many ancient boroughs remained as municipal boroughs, they were disenfranchised by the Reform Act. | 
 
 
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| With the abolition of the metropolitan county councils in 1986, these metropolitan boroughs became independent, and continue to be so at present. | 
 
 
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| The Act also disenfranchised the boroughs of Newport and Yarmouth and replaced the six lost seats with the first MP for the whole Isle of Wight. | 
 
 
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| Thousands of people perished in these densely populated working class boroughs. | 
 
 
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| New York City is divided into five boroughs, each coterminous with a county. | 
 
 
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| It decreased the property qualification in boroughs, so that all men with an address in boroughs could vote. | 
 
 
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| Dunwich was a parliamentary borough in Suffolk, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. | 
 
 
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| In the parliamentary novels of Anthony Trollope rotten boroughs are a recurring theme. | 
 
 
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| John Grey, Phineas Finn, and Lord Silverbridge are all elected by rotten boroughs. | 
 
 
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| In addition, the Act adjusted the representation of several existing boroughs. | 
 
 
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| In addition, the city boroughs of the Ruhr region have outlying districts with a rural character. | 
 
 
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| Instead, the individual city boroughs and urban districts of the Ruhr grew independently of one another during the Industrial Revolution. | 
 
 
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| The Halton and Warrington boroughs were not affected by the 2009 restructuring. | 
 
 
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| It consists of the five metropolitan boroughs of South Tyneside, North Tyneside, City of Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead and City of Sunderland. | 
 
 
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| Between the county boroughs, various other settlements also formed part of the administrative counties of Durham and of Northumberland. | 
 
 
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| Winter Hill is a hill on the border of the boroughs of Chorley, Blackburn with Darwen and Bolton, in North West England. | 
 
 
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| From the beginning in 1889, the county boroughs of Exeter, Devonport and Plymouth were outside the jurisdiction of the county council. | 
 
 
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| The Reform Act strengthened the House of Commons by reducing the number of nomination boroughs controlled by peers. | 
 
 
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| After the Games, the Park will remain protected, serving as a green lung for the surrounding boroughs and the Olympic Village residential area. | 
 
 
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| In these areas the principal authorities are the councils of the subdivisions, the metropolitan boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The local authorities are the councils of the 32 London boroughs and the City of London Corporation. | 
 
 
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| Since 1965 Greater London has been divided into 32 London boroughs in addition to the ancient City of London. | 
 
 
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| The Black Country, broadly the boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Wolverhampton and Walsall, played an important part in the Industrial Revolution. | 
 
 
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| Pitt's entry into parliament is somewhat ironic as he later railed against the very same pocket and rotten boroughs that had given him his seat. | 
 
 
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| He did not advocate an expansion of the electoral franchise, but he did seek to address bribery and rotten boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Some districts are Royal boroughs, but this does not affect the name of the council. | 
 
 
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| Knights had been summoned to previous councils, but the representation of the boroughs was unprecedented. | 
 
 
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| London is divided into London boroughs while the other regions are divided into metropolitan counties, shire counties and unitary authorities. | 
 
 
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| Greater London is divided into 32 London boroughs, also dating from 1965, each governed by a London borough council. | 
 
 
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| In 1974, administrative counties and county boroughs were abolished, and a major reform was instituted. | 
 
 
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| For elections to the London Assembly, London is divided into 14 constituencies, each formed from two or three boroughs. | 
 
 
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| London is divided into 73 Parliamentary borough constituencies, formed from the combined area of several wards from one or more boroughs. | 
 
 
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| From 1965 to 1990, 12 Inner London boroughs and the City of London were served by the Inner London Education Authority. | 
 
 
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| At GCSE and A level, Outer London boroughs have broadly better results than Inner London boroughs. | 
 
 
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| They were created in 1972 and are each divided into several metropolitan districts or boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Its proposal for the West Midlands conurbation preferred instead an area of contiguous county boroughs with no overall metropolitan authority. | 
 
 
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| Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, metropolitan boroughs are defined in English law as metropolitan districts. | 
 
 
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| The new districts replaced the previous system of county boroughs, municipal boroughs, urban and rural districts. | 
 
 
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| Some counties were based on areas surrounding large county boroughs or were formed by the mergers of smaller counties. | 
 
 
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| In 1986 the six metropolitan county councils were abolished, with their functions transferred to the metropolitan boroughs and joint boards. | 
 
 
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| Some smaller settlements also enjoyed some degree of autonomy from regular administration as boroughs or liberties. | 
 
 
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| Twelve were designated as Inner London boroughs and twenty as Outer London boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Inner London boroughs tend to be smaller, in both population and area, and more densely populated than Outer London boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The London boroughs were created by combining groups of former local government units. | 
 
 
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| There were county boroughs, municipal boroughs, urban districts and metropolitan boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The large county boroughs provided all local government services and held the powers usually invested in county councils. | 
 
 
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| This was made up of a mixture of whole existing units, mergers of two or three areas, and two boroughs formed as the result of a split. | 
 
 
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| In December 1961 the government proposed that there would be 34 boroughs rather than 52, and detailed their boundaries. | 
 
 
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| Some relatively minor changes have been made to the boundaries of boroughs since 1965, and two have changed their names. | 
 
 
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| Borough names formed by combining two locality names had been discouraged when the boroughs were created. | 
 
 
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| The boundary of the City of London with adjacent boroughs was adjusted to remove some anomalies. | 
 
 
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| The boroughs are local government districts and have similar functions to metropolitan boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Shared services are borough council services shared between two or more boroughs. | 
 
 
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| London most often denotes the sprawling London metropolis, or the 32 London boroughs, in addition to the City of London itself. | 
 
 
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| The City relies upon stations in the surrounding London boroughs to support it at some incidents. | 
 
 
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| A provision of this Act is that is that civil parishes may now be established in the London boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Twelve of the boroughs, corresponding to the former County of London, were designated Inner London boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The Act also established the Inner London Education Authority to administer schools and colleges in the 12 inner London boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The remaining 20 outer boroughs became local education authorities in their own right. | 
 
 
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| The 'Royal Borough of Charlton' was proposed for the Greenwich and Woolwich metropolitan boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Six new names were proposed by the Minister in October 1963 for boroughs unable to decide upon a name. | 
 
 
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| This proposed the eventually settled 32 more empowered boroughs forming a new administrative county. | 
 
 
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| The Education Reform Act 1988 abolished the Inner London Education Authority and made the inner London boroughs education authorities. | 
 
 
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| Within Greater London there are 33 components corresponding to the City of London and the London boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The last three had been the largest county boroughs outside the London area without city status. | 
 
 
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| The title of a city which is borne by certain boroughs is a purely titular distinction. | 
 
 
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| Between junctions 22 and 25, the road is used as a border between the metropolitan boroughs of Calderdale and Kirklees. | 
 
 
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| County Councils and county boroughs were designated as local health authorities. | 
 
 
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| On 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the administrative county was abolished, as were the county boroughs. | 
 
 
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| As of 2008 they are drawn from schools in the London boroughs of Merton, Sutton, Kingston, and Wandsworth, as well as from Surrey. | 
 
 
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| This is particularly true in parts of the boroughs of Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. | 
 
 
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| The Black Country boroughs form part of the Birmingham metropolitan economy, the second largest in the United Kingdom. | 
 
 
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| Parliamentary boroughs in England ranged widely in size from small hamlets to large cities, partly because they had evolved haphazardly. | 
 
 
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| The earliest boroughs were chosen in the Middle Ages by county sheriffs, and even a village might be deemed a borough. | 
 
 
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| Of the 70 English boroughs that Tudor monarchs enfranchised, 31 were later disenfranchised. | 
 
 
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| This was particularly true in rural counties, and in small boroughs situated near a large landed estate. | 
 
 
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| Electors were bribed individually in some boroughs, and collectively in others. | 
 
 
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| The nabobs, in some cases, even managed to wrest control of boroughs from the nobility and the gentry. | 
 
 
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| Nevertheless, he did not advocate an immediate disfranchisement of rotten boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The bill disfranchised 60 of the smallest boroughs, and reduced the representation of 47 others. | 
 
 
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| The Whig party won almost all constituencies with genuine electorates, leaving the Tories with little more than the rotten boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The Reform Act's chief objective was the reduction of the number of nomination boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Voter registration was lacking, and many boroughs were rarely contested in elections. | 
 
 
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| Many major commercial and industrial cities became separate parliamentary boroughs under the Act. | 
 
 
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| Most of the pocket boroughs abolished by the Reform Act belonged to the Tory Party. | 
 
 
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| Although it did disenfranchise most rotten boroughs, a few remained, such as Totnes in Devon and Midhurst in Sussex. | 
 
 
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| Well, you're not bridge-and-tunnel. No trace of the boroughs when you talk. So that means Manhattan, that means money. | 
 
 
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| It shares local government powers with the councils of 32 London boroughs and the City of London Corporation. | 
 
 
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| Kley grew up a consummate Manhattanite in Greenwich Village, looking down on even the outer boroughs as provincial hinterlands. | 
 
 
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| This summer, major blackouts and brown-outs plagued Queens and other boroughs throughout the City. | 
 
 
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| After all, weed is practically legal in the five boroughs these days. | 
 
 
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| They come floating in the family pocket boroughs, preserved and secured with criminal might of their musclemen. | 
 
 
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| Lord Henry was a great electioneerer, Burrowing for boroughs like a rat or rabbit. | 
 
 
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| Thus it includes, in five boroughs, significant parts of the Metropolitan Green Belt which protects designated greenfield land in a similar way to the city's parks. | 
 
 
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| Primary and secondary education within Greater Manchester are the responsibility of the constituent boroughs which form local education authorities and administer schools. | 
 
 
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| It consists of ten indirectly elected members, each a directly elected councillor from one of the ten metropolitan boroughs that comprise Greater Manchester. | 
 
 
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| Due to this expansion, modern Surrey also borders on the London boroughs of Hillingdon, Hounslow, Richmond upon Thames, Kingston upon Thames, Sutton, Croydon and Bromley. | 
 
 
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| In contrast to the legislation in England and Wales, each county borough was to have its own lieutenant, and those counties corporate not made county boroughs were abolished. | 
 
 
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| The representative of a pocket borough was often the man who owned the land, and for this reason they were also referred to as proprietarial boroughs. | 
 
 
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| This made Old Sarum the most notorious of the rotten boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Historically rotten and pocket boroughs, constituencies with unusually small populations, were used by wealthy families to gain parliamentary representation. | 
 
 
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| Twelve boroughs in the former County of London area were designated Inner London boroughs and the twenty others were designated Outer London boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Combined with the boroughs of Belfast and Derry, the counties do serve for organisational purposes within government, and often with private businesses and sporting clubs. | 
 
 
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| All of the five boroughs are governed by the Democratic Party. | 
 
 
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| The 5 administrative boroughs of the whole comune of Florence. | 
 
 
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| Some of the boroughs and quarters have been rearranged several times. | 
 
 
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| The metropolitan boroughs possessed slightly more autonomy from the metropolitan county councils than the shire county districts did from their county councils. | 
 
 
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| The county boroughs were, like the municipal boroughs, abolished in 1974, being reabsorbed into their parent counties for administrative purposes. | 
 
 
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| In smaller boroughs, a town council was formed for the area of the abolished borough, while charter trustees were formed in other former boroughs. | 
 
 
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| In the 1980s, some boroughs and cities began to be merged with their surrounding counties to form districts with a mixed urban and rural population. | 
 
 
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| Only eight municipalities in Quebec are divided into boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Boroughs in many cases are descendants of municipal boroughs set up hundreds of years ago, and so have a number of traditions and ceremonial functions. | 
 
 
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| Additionally, the territory and population of administrative counties was reduced by the increasing numbers of county boroughs, and extensions thereof. | 
 
 
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| The abolition of the county boroughs resulted in the distinction made between the counties for Lieutenancy and those for county councils becoming unnecessary. | 
 
 
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| A Local Government Boundary Commission was set up in 1945 with the power to merge, create or divide all existing administrative counties and county boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The resulting Local Government Act 1888 divided the counties into administrative counties, controlled by county councils and independent areas known as county boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Those that did not become county boroughs became part of adjacent administrative counties but retained their existing lieutenancies and shrievalties. | 
 
 
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| County boroughs were to be administrative counties of themselves. | 
 
 
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| This was a wide franchise for the period, and its reasonable size meant that St Ives was one of the few Cornish boroughs that could claim not to be rotten. | 
 
 
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| In 2014, under a reform of the Dutch Municipalities Act, the Amsterdam boroughs lost much of their autonomous status, as their district councils were abolished. | 
 
 
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| Bergen is divided into eight boroughs, as seen on the map to the right. | 
 
 
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| An administrative county of Glamorgan was created under the Local Government Act 1888, excluding Swansea and Cardiff, which became independent county boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Several ferry companies also offer service linking midtown and lower Manhattan with locations in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, crossing the city's East River. | 
 
 
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| The Staten Island Ferry in New York City, sailing between the boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island, is the nation's single busiest ferry route by passenger volume. | 
 
 
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| In the wake of the Reform Act of 1832 the county returned two members for two divisions, and the boroughs of Gateshead, South Shields and Sunderland acquired representation. | 
 
 
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| The city is divided into seven administrative districts, or boroughs, each with its own district council, district leader, and district authority. | 
 
 
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| Sometimes boroughs were governed by bailiffs or headboroughs. | 
 
 
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| Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of New York State. | 
 
 
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| After the Acts of Union 1800, smaller Irish boroughs were disenfranchised, while most others returned only one MP to the United Kingdom Parliament. | 
 
 
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| Existing borough electors retained a lifetime right to vote, however they had qualified, provided they were resident in the boroughs in which they were electors. | 
 
 
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| Like his father, he shrank from proposing the wholesale abolition of the rotten boroughs, advocating instead an increase in county representation. | 
 
 
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| Before the reform, most members nominally represented boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The NUTS 3 areas are now a single or a group of two or three boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Buckingham introduced to Parliament a Public Institution Bill allowing boroughs to charge a tax to set up libraries and museums, the first of its kind. | 
 
 
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| In other areas, grammar schools survive mainly as very highly selective schools in an otherwise comprehensive county, for example in several of the outer boroughs of London. | 
 
 
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| Nottingham was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, and at that time consisted of the parishes of St Mary, St Nicholas and St Peter. | 
 
 
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| Counties and boroughs were abolished and all boundaries were redrawn. | 
 
 
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| The Lancashire borough of Pendle lies to the west, whilst North Yorkshire boroughs of Craven and Harrogate lie to the north west and north east respectively. | 
 
 
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| The functions of the county council were devolved to the boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The Pendle borough of Lancashire lies to the west, whilst the Craven and Harrogate boroughs of North Yorkshire lie to the north west and north east of the city. | 
 
 
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| The London Government Act 1899 abolished the existing local authorities within the County of London and replaced them with 28 metropolitan boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Bus Services in Newcastle upon Tyne and the surrounding boroughs part of the Tyne and Wear area are coordinated by Nexus, the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive. | 
 
 
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| In the County of London this reorganised the proposed boroughs so that combinations for the present boroughs of Camden, Westminster and Islington were achieved. | 
 
 
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| As passed, the Act did not include names for the new boroughs. | 
 
 
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| Section 2 declared that the area comprising the areas of the London boroughs, the City and the Temples shall constitute an administrative area to be known as Greater London. | 
 
 
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| The remaining twenty boroughs were designated Outer London boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The Act classified the boroughs into inner and outer London groups. | 
 
 
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| The Act also provided for transfers between London boroughs and neighbouring counties where there was consensus for the change between all the relevant local authorities. | 
 
 
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| The London boroughs were created by combining whole existing units of local government and it was realised that this might provide arbitrary boundaries in some places. | 
 
 
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| The London boroughs were all created at the same time as Greater London on 1 April 1965 by the London Government Act 1963 and are a type of local government district. | 
 
 
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| This pattern was based on that established for municipal boroughs by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, and then later adopted for county councils and rural districts. | 
 
 
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| However, metropolitan boroughs pool much of their authority in joint boards and other arrangements that cover whole metropolitan counties, such as combined authorities. | 
 
 
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| They are also used in certain government statistics, although they no longer appear on Ordnance Survey maps, which show the individual metropolitan boroughs. | 
 
 
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| De Montfort assembled the Great Parliament, recognized as the first Parliament because it was the first time the cities and boroughs had sent representatives. | 
 
 
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| The metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986 with most of their functions being devolved to the individual boroughs, making them de facto unitary authorities. | 
 
 
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| The 1990s led to the restoration of county boroughs under a new name, unitary authorities, which radically changed the administrative map of England. | 
 
 
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| Others have included exchange of two Thames islands with Surrey and adjustments during the 1990s to parts of the boundaries of three boroughs near the M25 motorway. | 
 
 
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| The Black County boroughs of Wolverhampton and neighbouring Sandwell were placed last and second last in terms of prosperity in an index compiled by a thinktank. | 
 
 
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| The boundaries of existing county boroughs were also widened. | 
 
 
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| The River Ribble gives its name to the local government boroughs of Ribble Valley and South Ribble, and the Ribble Valley parliamentary constituency. | 
 
 
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| The Local Government Commission for England came back with a recommendation to create a new county of Tyneside based on the review area, divided into four separate boroughs. | 
 
 
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| The county is the only place in the UK to have a fully orbital motorway, the M60, which passes through all of the boroughs except Bolton and Wigan. | 
 
 
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