"I want to be clear that this is a fresh bid in response to government proposals and not a county council takeover." That was the message from Deborah Taylor, the acting leader of Leicestershire ...

Leicestershire County Council and the district and boroughs want the city's boundary to stay as it is, with no expansion into what is currently county council territory. Under all three submitted ...

The pink-shaded area of the map shows the the extent of the proposed new city boundary Soulsby ... under a single council serving a population of 578,000. Leicestershire County Council has already ...

The latest thinking from Leicestershire’s biggest authority is for a single county authority to be created, respecting existing boundaries. Leicester city and Rutland would remain separate under the ...

District authorities fear they may be dissolved under proposals by Leicestershire County Council "I want to be ... Rutland - face being deleted from the map. All this has been triggered by the ...