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	Local government in Scotland
		In 1975, the Conservative government of Edward Heath introduced a system of two-tier local government in Scotland, divided between large Regional Councils and smaller District Councils.
		The only exceptions to this were the three Island Councils, Western Isles, Shetland and Orkney which had the combined powers of Regions and Districts.
		The four main cities of Scotland, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee have a Lord-Provost rather than a Provost, although their duties are essentially the same.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/local_government_in_scotland (297 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of Scottish districts by population
		Scottish Borders is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland.
		Clackmannanshire is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy Area, bordering onto the areas of Perth and Kinross, Stirling and Fife.
		See also: List of Scottish districts by area, List of English districts by population, List of Welsh principal areas by population The City of Glasgow is one of the 32 Scottish unitary authorities and came into being in 1995.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Scottish-districts-by-population (297 words)

	Subdivisions of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Before 1996 the local government divisions of Scotland were regions and districts (each region consisting of a number of districts) and unitary island council areas; that scheme was introduced on May 16, 1975.
		Scotland has several other administrative divisions, some of which are handled by joint boards of the councils.
		Traditionally burghs have been the key unit of the local government of Scotland, being highly autonomous entities, with rights to representation in the old Parliament of Scotland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland (393 words)

	Voting in Proportion: Electoral Reform for Scotland's Councils - SCF Paper 4 - Chapter 2
		Scotland's two-tier model of local government - 53 Districts and 9 Regions - was introduced in 1974 and abolished by the 1994 Local Government (Scotland) Act.
		It is too often the case in Scotland, and it is unjustified by the preferences of Scots who never distribute their votes in such landslide proportions.
		The one-party states include many of Scotland's largest councils.
	www.scottishpolicynet.org.uk /scf/publications/paper_4/chapter2.shtml (2417 words)

	Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		39) created the current local government structure of 32 unitary authorities covering the whole of Scotland, and abolished the previous two-tier structure of regions and districts which had covered all of Scotland except the island council areas.
		The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (1994 c.
		It came into effect on 1 April 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Local_Government_etc._(Scotland)_Act_1994 (117 words)

	Counties of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The counties originated prior to the Union with England, and continued as both administrative and ceremonial units until their abolition in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, when they were replaced with regions and districts and the areas for Lieutenancy.
		Scotland was, until 1975, divided into counties for the purposes of local government and other government functions such as the lieutenancy.
		The administrative counties excluded from their area the four 'counties of cities' in Scotland - Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Administrative_counties_of_Scotland (408 words)

	ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY FACTS AND INFORMATION
		In Scotland they were repealed in 1975 and replaced with a system of regions.
		Technically, county_boroughs were (and in the case of Northern Ireland, are) administrative counties in their own right, as were the counties_of_cities in Scotland.
		In Northern_Ireland they were never formally repealed, though have been replaced for local government use by a system of 26 districts.
	www.witwib.com /administrative_county (408 words)

	Report on South Lanarkshire Council by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland
		The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 determined that on and after 1 April 1996, Scotland should be divided into local government areas as named and described in Schedule 1 to the Act and that, for each area, there should be a council consisting of a convener and councillors.
		Stonehouse parish was one of the oldest in Scotland and was often spoken of as being surrounded by water although a section of the parish bad been removed from the ward at a previous boundary review.
		Schedule 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 also established that every local government area (other than areas of the old islands councils) should be divided into such electoral wards as maybe specified in a direction made by the Secretary of State after carrying out such consultations as he considered appropriate.
	www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk /reports/southlanarkshire.htm (408 words)

	Dundee Online Research :: Information about Dundee
		From 1975, the city was the administrative centre of Tayside Regions of Scotland (and was itself administered as one of the districts of that region).
		His brother, David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon is said to have named the town Donum Dei ('God's gift') upon narrowly escaping death during his return from the Crusades.
		Dundee (DÃ¹n DÃ¨agh in Scottish Gaelic language) is Scotland 's fourth largest city, population 154,674 (2001), situated on the North bank of the Firth of Tay.
	in-northcarolina.com /search/Dundee_Scotland.html (2606 words)

	Census 2001 - Census News
		Virtual Counties in GOSW, Each other Government Office Regions in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
		England, GORs of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
		Specified Government Office Regions Groups (England & Wales) and Scotland
	www.statistics.gov.uk /Census2001/avail_com_tables.asp (1249 words)

	Great Britain and Nothern Ireland
		Local divisions: England, Wales: 53 counties, Greater London; Scotland: 9 regions, 3 island areas; Northern Ireland: 26 districts.
		It consists of four main parts which are: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
		The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland occupies most of the territory of the British Isles.
	www.tomsk.fio.ru /works/143/Mimrina (1249 words)

	VRO: Regions of Operations
		HYDERABAD–IX The Godavari-region, covering two districts (East and West Godavari) is one of the most attractive regions of VRO in Andhra Pradesh State.
		These Godavari Districts in the region, is specially determined by the tribal poverty and the coastal island villages, which are always worst affected by the natural calamities.
		Nick and Dr.Susan from Scotland (UK) spent one remarkable year in Jaggampet and prepared their "Village Scienc" book and a book on "Health Education".
	www.vroindia.org /Reg_Rajahmundry.html (1221 words)

	event labour uk
		Wales The constituent parts of the United Kingdom have subdivisions as follows: The Regions, Counties and Administrative counties of England The Council areas of Scotland The Counties and county boroughs of Wales The Districts of Northern Ireland The Act of Union 1536 incorporated Wales and England into England and Wales for legal purposes.
		Scotland's geography is varied, with lowlands in the south and east and highlands in the north and west, including Ben Nevis, the UK's highest mountain (1343 m).
		The rump SDP finished fourth at the Neath by-election in 1991, and they were to hold a number of council seats in Yorkshire and South Wales throughout the 1990s.
	www.copywriteireland.co.uk /event-labour-uk.aspx (7267 words)

	BBC - Crime Fighters - Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
		The Procurator Fiscal Service is divided into regions, with a Regional Procurator Fiscal for each of the six Sheriffdoms in Scotland: Grampian, Highland and Islands; Tayside, Central and Fife; Lothian and Borders; Glasgow and Strathkelvin; North Strathclyde; South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway.
		The job of the Procurator Fiscal is to make preliminary investigations into criminal cases in their districts, take written statements from witnesses and conduct the prosecution in the Sheriff and District Courts.
		The majority of crimes in Scotland are heard in the Sheriff Courts where the Procurator Fiscal presents the case for the prosecution.
	www.bbc.co.uk /crime/fighters/scotscrownoffice.shtml (1058 words)

	event labour uk
		Wales The constituent parts of the United Kingdom have subdivisions as follows: The Regions, Counties and Administrative counties of England The Council areas of Scotland The Counties and county boroughs of Wales The Districts of Northern Ireland The Act of Union 1536 incorporated Wales and England into England and Wales for legal purposes.
		The United Kingdom was formed by Acts of Union which united the Kingdom of England (which included Wales as a principality) with the Kingdom of Scotland and later the Kingdom of Ireland as a single state under the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		The constitution is based on the principle that Parliament is the ultimate sovereign body in the country and on the rule of law.
	www.copywriteireland.co.uk /event-labour-uk.aspx (7267 words)

	The Royal Heraldry Society of Canada (Prairie Branch)
		The symbolism of the arms is readily apparent- furs and polar bears in the north (districts of Mackenzie, Keewatin, and Ungava) and agriculture in the south (districts of Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Athabasca).
		The bulk of the regions represented by the red area of the shield are now no longer part of the NWT, and the magnetic north pole is now no longer clearly in the NWT, but lies somewhere between islands belonging to the two territories.
		The "wise advice" of the Scottish Parliament would have ruined the king's arms by converting a wonderfully unique symbol into just another lion (like that of Flanders, Brabant, etc., etc.), and it is a blessing (appreciated by the Heraldry Society of Scotland as well as by us) that it was ignored.
	www.mad-alchemy.com /hsc/tress1.htm (6015 words)

	1990s UK local government reform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Acts abolished the existing county boroughs or counties of cities, and created a uniform two-tier system of government with regions or counties, and districts.
		In many counties that were to remain unchanged, the government accepted the Report, with reservations about specific districts.
		Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 was abolished in
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banham_Commission (6015 words)

	Ayr in the Scotch Irish
		This is evidently Kyle in Ayrshire, and the other regions were probably Carrick and Cuninghame, so that the king of Northumbria added to his possessions of Galloway on the north side of the Solway the whole of Ayrshire.--Celtic Scotland, vol.
		In this district are to be found the chief evidences in Scotland of the birth or residence of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
		In Ayrshire, as already stated, the mass of the inhabitants, were purely Celtic; but, as in other districts, the bulk of the property passed into the hands of Norman and Saxon emigrants, with whose followers the towns and villages were crowded.
	fp.ayrshireroots.plus.com /Genealogy/Historical/Ayr%20in%20the%20Scotch-Irish.htm (6015 words)

	Bruges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The city's entrepreneurs reached out to make economic colonies of England and Scotland's wool-producing districts.
		Bruges (Dutch: Brugge (a name probably signifying landing stage)) is the historic capital of the province of West Flanders, Flanders being one of the three regions of Belgium.
		Bruges is also a football town represented by two teams at the top level (Jupiler League): Club Brugge and Cercle Brugge K.S.V. Bruges is home to the College of Europe, a prestigious institution of postgraduate studies in European Economics, Law and Politics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bruges (1348 words)

	ipedia.com: Dumfries and Galloway Article
		Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland.
		Dumfries and Galloway covers the traditional counties of Wigtownshire (in the west), Kirkcudbrightshire (centre) and Dumfriesshire (in the east).
		The Galloway part of the region is made up of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, the Machars and the Rhins.
	www.ipedia.com /dumfries_and_galloway.html (274 words)

	Subdivisions of the United Kingdom - Definition, explanation
		The other regions are divided into unitary authorities (some of which are metropolitan districts grouped to form metropolitan counties), and shire counties.
		The United Kingdom is divided into four entities — England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
		As a whole, executive government in Northern Ireland is currently administered by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and laws are made in the United Kingdom Parliament - known as "direct rule" in contrast to devolution.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/su/subdivisions_of_the_united_kingdom.php (486 words)

	Large burgh
		All burghs in Scotland were abolished in 1975 and replaced with uniform system of districts and regions.
		In 1930, the Scottish burgh s were split into two types, large burgh and small burghs.
		The councils of large burghs had more responsibilities and power than those of small burghs.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Large-burgh.htm (486 words)

	Tartan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Celtic regions of Cornwall and Wales tartans and kilts have been adopted as part of the 19th and 20th century Celtic revival and the traditional Northumbrian tartan, known in Scotland as the Shephard's Tartan, perhaps the oldest tartan design in Britain, is common and worn by Northumbrian Pipers.
		In the days of Martin, the tartans seemed to be used to distinguish the inhabitants of different districts and not the inhabitants of different families as at present.
		The tartan of a Scottish clan is a sequence of colors and shades unique to the material, authorised by the clan society for use by members of that clan for kilts, ties, and other garments and decorations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tartan (1416 words)

	botanical.com - A Modern Herbal Groundsel - Herb Profile and Information
		In Scotland and the north of England it is still in some localities called Grundy Swallow - only a slight corruption of the old form of the word - and is also there called Ground Glutton.
		The flower heads are less numerous, with the outer bracts of the involucre about half as long as the inner, and the flowers pale.
		It is a perennial, distributed over Europe and Siberia, growing not infrequently here on dry banks and by roadsides in limestone or chalky districts from Berwick southwards, but rarely in Ireland.
	www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/g/grocom41.html (1416 words)

	BBC NEWS Politics Will regional assemblies get the vote?
		The chance to give English regions at least a taste of the devolution already enjoyed by Scotland and Wales is unfinished business from Labour's first term and a long-cherished dream of John Prescott.
		This will mean either the county council will disappear, or in some cases the smaller districts.
		If voters do back an assembly there will need to be further legislation to set up it up, so it is unlikely we will see any up and running before the next general election.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2993516.stm (517 words)

	History of the counties
		In the case of Scotland, the ceremonial areas for the Lord Lieutenants were not changed to match the new regions and many still represented the former counties.
		The lower-tier metropolitan districts and London boroughs became almost single-tier councils, although some services were still provided county-wide using residuary bodies and joint boards.
		In 1899, the county of London was formed from the city and parts of the surrounding counties of Kent, Middlesex and Surrey.
	jonathan.rawle.org /hyperpedia/counties/history.php (1192 words)

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