Flick through your local newspaper (if one still exists), or fight past the online pop-ups and chances are there will be a story about Labour’s plans for the biggest shake-up of local government since the 1970s.
Villagers in High Peak, rural Derbyshire, worry they could be bundled in with Andy Burnham’s Greater Manchester.
Bucket-loads of political capital and cash will be used to reconfigure English councils’ two-tier set-up, but the benefits could be huge.
In Rutland, locals have started a campaign to save the tiny county from abolition.
Nottingham is expanding, Medway wants to become a city, and Surrey will have a mayor.
