Andrew Cheetham

[Andrew Cheetham @AndrewChee53348]

@RealCounties The media's relentless adherence to admin areas had done huge damage, as has the 'empire building' mentality of officials and many councillors of admin areas.

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@SheffUnitedWay Does he even wonder why his reception is different to Egan's and McBurnie's??

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@JebraFaushay It's Canada - The flags are a clue...

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@RealCounties All true, yet they allowed these admin area to mark their territory aggressively, erase any reference to the historic county and spend a lot of money promoting themselves as the only 'counties'.

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@RealCounties Receiving loud and clear!

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@RealCounties @YorkshireTea Doubt you'll get a reasonable response. I pointed out the same issue to them and just got a snarky response of "Don't you ever get tired?"

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@YorkshireTea No - do you ever get things right and not respond like a child?

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@YorkshireLad6 @RealCounties @britishcounties @FORLancashire Saddleworth never been Lancashire of any type - administrative or historic. Only historic county describes place, hence West Riding of Yorkshire.

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@RealCounties Easy one this - Nottinghamshire (I hope!)

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@RealCounties Hi - from Yorkshire

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@MrsP_A @CommonsSpeaker It's in the historic county of Warwickshire- not the boundaries of a local government area concocted in 1974.

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@britishcounties Correct! When only location is relevant, the historic county is the only one to use. Simple, unchanging and nothing to do with transient council areas.

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@YorkshireLad6 @RealCounties @Freedom_2004 Except resistance from those currently occupying nonsense lieutenancies based on 1974 admin areas..

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@Freedom_2004 @RealCounties 100% Alignment of lieutenants with 1974 admin area fuelled much confusion and gave the admin area a false sense of grandeur and history - there was absolutely no need to do this and it must be changed!

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@nickspencer74 @RealCounties Riding comes from an old Norse word for a 'third part' (I think)

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@britishcounties The media are as much to blame for county confusion as anyone - they rushed to embrace the 1974 local govt changes and only used those to describe the location of places.

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@YorkshireNige @RealSomerset @BBCRB I have a work colleague, from Bristol, who just won't accept that Bristol wasn't 'removed' from historic Gloucestershire/Somerset when it got county corporate status. So frustrating...

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@YorkshireLad6 @britishcounties It's offensive

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@RealSomerset @britishcounties Vile sign. I can imagine the anger and frustration that people felt passing that everyday.