Charles Ellson wrote:
On 29 Jun 2006 16:29:00 -0700, "Adrian Auer-Hudson, MIMIS"
wrote:

Richard J. wrote:

*No* UK postal addresses now need the county to be included. I find it
irritating when websites ask for your address with the county as a
mandatory field. Many of them will not accept an address in the form
123 Xyz Road, London, [postcode]. You are forced either to enter London
twice or to insert an unnecessary district name such as Acton in place
of the town name.

Which County is BRISTOL in these days? And, is it EDINBURGH Midlothian
(the old county) or EDINBURGH Lothian

Neither, most cities didn't need to be further qualified with a county
name in an address. Edinburgh was and is generally in Midlothian for
those contexts which require a county.

(the new region)?

The now defunct (for several years) region.

What happened to those exceptions like MILTON KEYNES?

Excepted in what way ?
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Let me endeavor to explain: I misunderstood the function of the
asterisks in "*No* UK postal addresses now need the county to be
included." I read the phase as "No, UK postal addresses now need the
county to be included." In that understanding I asked the question
about exceptions because I believed that there was a long list of
Postal Towns that did NOT need qualification with a county name.

However, a second reading leads me to believe that Richard J meant "No
UK postal addresses now need the county to be included". This being
the exact opposite meaning. So Milton Keynes is not an exception
because, now, no postal towns need to be qualified by a county name.

Thank you for expalaining that the Scottish regions have gone. They
never seamed very meaningful to me. I much preferred the counties.
Are the counties back? What happened to Strathclyde? Am I right in
thinking there is still a Strathclyde PTE?

Thanks

Adrian, http://www.losangelesmetro.net/author/

On 30 Jun 2006 16:41:09 -0700, wrote:

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Thank you for expalaining that the Scottish regions have gone. They
never seamed very meaningful to me. I much preferred the counties.
Are the counties back?

All are now single tier "Councils" in "Council Areas", some of which
bear a remarkable similarity to the traditional cities and counties.

What happened to Strathclyde?

Generally, functions passed to what were the district councils with
"joint boards" (formed with reps from councils) to manage what
remained from districts+regions days, mainly fire and police.

Am I right in thinking there is still a Strathclyde PTE?

No, there's now a "son of", see:-
http://www.spt.co.uk/about/index.html
although there's possibly not much difference to the passengers.

The only "next-nearest-to-a-PTE" (buses-only public authority
transport operator) in Scotland seems now to be trading as Lothian
Buses:-
http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/
which unless I've missed something is the jointly-owned (East, West
and Mid-Lothian councils) Lothian Region Transport in disguise.

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