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Colin Rosenstiel · December 1st 04, 02:07 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(David Boothroyd) wrote:

In article ,
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
In article ,
(Ian Jelf) wrote:
But, although having powers analogous to those of a county, there
is no such things as the County of Southend on Sea.
/pedant

That depends on the purposes. It's a county for the pruposes of the
Parliamentary Boundary Commission, for example,

No it isn't, it's being reviewed along with Essex.

but a district in terms of the Local Government Act 1972.

There used to be such things as "Parliamentary Counties" for some
Boroughs: Norwich, Bristol, Exeter, and Nottingham.

I think it would have been better not to have opened this can of
worms.

Almost certainly right.

You clearly haven't been reading enough Parliamentary Boundary Commission
reports David. Otherwise you wouldn't have written that rubbish. But this
is the wrong newsgroup to argue the toss about this.

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Colin Rosenstiel