On 3 Dec 2004, Jonn Elledge wrote:

"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
...

What used to be Essex kind of splits into three now I think: the home
counties bit in the northern half; the Essex girl joke bit in the South;
and the greater East End bit inside the M25, which is like a Londonized
version of the southern half of the county.

It's due to split further, to generate four more partitions. The county
plan was drawn up by some chap called Dante, i understand.

Thanks for describing Outer Essex as 'home counties', by the way; i would
have said 'country bumpkin' myself.

tom

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