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11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment

The ceremony was attended by Lt Col Gareth Bex (Commanding Officer); soldiers of the Regiment; Mark Hopwood, of FGW; Keith Mitchell, leader of the county council; and the MP for Wantage, Ed Vaizey.

Chilthorne Domer

Susan Miller took the title Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer in 1998 after serving as a councillor at parish, district and county levels from 1987-2005, leading South Somerset District Council and as a member of Somerset County Council.

Coat of arms of Sussex

The device, displaying six martlets or heraldic swallows on a shield, later formed the basis of the flag of Sussex and the armorial bearings granted to the county councils of East and West Sussex.

Don't Feed the Gondolas

The name of the show is attributed to a remark made by a Wicklow County Councillor, Jimmy Miley, during a meeting regarding Blessington Lake.

Hordaland County Municipality

The county council has 57 members, and Chairman of the County Council is Torill Selsvold Nyborg (Christian Democrats) while her deputy is Tom-Christer Nilsen (Conservative).

Jakob Eng

He was a member of Rogaland county council from 1979 to 1991, and a deputy member in 1975–1979 and 1991–1995.

Kingsway Village

For the County Council purposes it is part of the new ward of Grange and Kingsway.

Örebro County Council

The Örebro County Council (Örebro läns landsting) is the County Council of Örebro County in Sweden.

Stockholm County Council

The Stockholm County Council, or Stockholms läns landsting, is a County Council, a regional municipal body corresponding to the territory of Stockholm County in Sweden.

Västra Götaland Regional Council

The Västra Götaland Regional Council, or Västra Götalandsregionen, is the devolved County Council of Västra Götaland County in Sweden.

Young Greens of England and Wales

Many Young Greens have been elected to County or City Councils, including Adrian Ramsay the former deupty leader of the Green Party in Norwich; Matt Sellwood, a former chair of the Young Greens, in Oxford and Ash Haynes, current Female co-Chair and youngest ever Green councillor, in Norwich.


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Alan Todd

These ultimately led to the county council purchasing a tract, mostly of ill-managed woodland between Clent Hill and Walton Hill in 1957.

Arkwright Town

The whole settlement was owned by British Coal and a decision was taken, along with Derbyshire County Council, to transfer ownership of the 52 properties to a housing trust, construct a new settlement of 56 properties to the north of the site affected by methane, and move all the residents.

Blue Triangle

Essex County Council route 11 (Purfleet to Basildon) was lost to Clintona Minicoaches in January 2009.

Bulkington

Bulkington elects a councillor to the county council along with part of Attleborough ward.

Capita Symonds

In 2001/2 they formed strategic partnerships with Cumbria County Council, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council and four Welsh local authorities.

Conor McGahon

He headed the poll in his ward when elected to the seat vacated by his father Brendan McGahon, a controversial Teachta Dála (TD) for the constituency of Louth from 1982 until 2002 and became the youngest local politician in the Republic of Ireland when first elected in 1991 and the fifth consecutive member of his family to sit on the County Council.

Costești, Vaslui

On 20 March 2010, Realitatea TV, together with Petrom, MaiMultVerde, Romsilva and the Vaslui County Council, planted 25,000 saplings on an area of 5 hectares in Chiţcani.

Cumulative voting

Among them are Peoria, Illinois for half of its city council, Chilton County, Alabama for its county council and school board, and Amarillo, Texas, for its school board and College Board of Regents.

Custos rotulorum

This latter official was, until 1888, appointed by the custos rotulorum, but following the passing of the Local Government Act of that year, the appointment was made by the standing joint-committee of the county council.

David Cobb

After moving to Eureka, California in 2003, Cobb also won a seat on the County Council of the Green Party of Humboldt County in a hotly contested election on June 6, 2006, a position he maintains.

Dessie Larkin

Donegal County Council and several media outlets, including Highland Radio, received documentation alleging Larkin was involved in irregularities in expenses payments.

Dooradoyle

Several attempts have been made by Limerick City Council to expand its area of control to include Castletroy, Raheen, and Dooradoyle: all currently administered by Limerick County Council.

Droitwich Canals Trust

This consisted of representatives from the Trust and from British Waterways, The Waterways Trust, Worcestershire County Council and Wychavon District Council.

East Wagga Wagga

Home Base Wagga Wagga, WIN Television, Country Energy depot, Riverina Water County Council headquarters, Australia Post Mail Sorting Centre, Busabout Wagga Wagga depot, Australian Clay Target Association (ACTA) National Office and ACTA shooting range are located within East Wagga Wagga.

Edward Walter

His grandson, David Walter, was also Chairman of the Stratford County Council, and then Mayor of Stratford and Chairman of the Taranaki Regional Council.

Elections in England and Wales, 1949

Tory leader Winston Churchill told a rally at the Royal Albert Hall that the County Council contests had seen great Conservative victories and there was a prospect of more to come.

George Hume

Sir George Hopwood Hume (1866–1946), leader of the London County Council and member of parliament for Greenwich

Gideon Coe

He began working in local government for Kent County Council, before starting as a sports broadcaster at BT ClubCall.

Gregory Kline

He provided legal advice to the 1998 Sauerbrey for Governor campaign and supported the 2002 Tony McConkey for Delegate and Cathleen Vitale for County Council campaigns.

Harold Shearman

He was Chairman of the London County Council and subsequently first Chairman from 1964-66 of the Greater London Council, Chairman of the Inner London Educational Authortiy, President from 1962-71 of the School Journey Association, and a member of the Robbins Committee.

John McWilliam

Sir John McWilliam (Fife) (died 1974), Convenor of Fife County Council and Lord Lieutenant of Fife

Kingston, Sussex

Kingston Buci, an electoral division of West Sussex County Council

Laurence Gomme

He attended the City of London School to the age of sixteen, when he started work, first with a railway company, then with the Fulham board of works, finally, in 1873, with the Metropolitan Board of Works: he remained with it and its successor, the London County Council, until his retirement in 1914.

Lydiate Ash

Lydiate Ash is a hamlet, consisting of a few houses and the road gritting and works depot for Worcestershire County Council and next door Gritting Depot For Highways Agency (Motorway Depot).

Michael Colvin

He was elected to Tangley parish council for 12 years from 1964, to Andover rural district council for seven years from 1965, and to Hampshire county council for five years from 1970.

Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation

When the Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation was closed, Nassau County Council's Camp Wauwepex in Wading River, New York was renamed as the John M. Schiff Scout Reservation, in honor of Moritmer's son, John.

North Tipperary County Council

On 26 July 2011, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government Phil Hogan announced the proposed merger of North Tipperary County Council and South Tipperary County Council.

Pakefield

For county council elections Pakefield is part of a larger constituency with the neighboring suburb of Carlton Colville.

Radnorshire

New Radnor was the original county town, although the Assizes sat at Presteigne and ultimately the County Council formed in 1889 met at Presteigne as well.

Salomon van Abbé

He studied at London County Council Schools, the People’s Palace, Toynbee Hall, Central School of Art and at the LCC School of Photoengraving and Lithography at Bolt Court where he met Edmund Blampied, Robert Charles Peter and John Nicolson, all fellow etchers.

Sam Scorer

On Lincoln's Brayford Pool a building, currently housing a Nando's, Prezzo and Handmade Burger Co. restaurants, that he designed in 1959 was originally a car showroom for the Lincolnshire Motor Company and then the music library for Lincolnshire County Council.

Samuel Whitbread Academy

Originally designated Shefford & District Upper School, it was as Samuel Whitbread Upper School that it opened on a purpose-built site on 4 September 1973, as part of Bedfordshire County Council's re-organisation into a 3-tier, non-selective school system.

Shelli Yoder

She was the Democratic Party nominee for the United States House of Representatives in Indiana's 9th congressional district in the 2012 race and is currently a member of the County Council for Monroe County, Indiana.

Somerset Space Walk

Funding for the project came from the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS), the initial advertising leaflet was paid for by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) and there was also a small grant from Sustrans, who fund art installations along cyclepaths, to deal with maintenance requirements in the years before Somerset County Council took on that responsibility.

South Tipperary County Council

On 26 July 2011, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan, announced the proposed merger of North Tipperary County Council and South Tipperary County Council.

Stansted Transit

Stansted Transit operated 22 bus routes, in Essex and on the Hertfordshire, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire borders, as well as many school bus contracts tendered by Essex County Council.

Swedish county council elections, 2002

The Swedish county council elections of 2002 were held on Sunday 15 September, along with other elections in Sweden to the Municipalities and the parliament.

Swedish county council elections, 2014

The Swedish County Council Election of 2014 is scheduled to be held on 14 September 2014, along with other elections in Sweden to the Swedish Municipal Councils and the Swedish Parliament.

Swedish general election, 1968

This was due to the Social Democrats' absolute majority in the First chamber and a steady majority for them in general elections and also at large in municipality and county council elections, of which the latter gave them the majority in the First chamber.

Ted Grace

He was elected to Fairfield City Council and then Prospect County Council, a public electric power distribution utility in New South Wales, of which he was chairman 1981-84.

Upleadon

The village today extends southwards alongside the River Leadon and has a population of 213 according to the Gloucestershire County Council.

Waimate Branch

One of the proposals for the Otago Central Railway was to build a line from Oamaru to Naseby, and in 1877 an invitation was extended to the Waimate County Council to partake in a plan to connect Waimate to the Oamaru-Naseby line in either Duntroon or Livingstone and thus establish a through route from Central Otago to Canterbury.

Walter Yates

Walter Baldwyn Yates, English barrister and member of the London County Council