0 an area of England that includes a large city area and had its own local government until 1986: --
In England there were six metropolitan counties supported by 36 metropolitan boroughs.
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in northwest England.
Are all metropolitan county council employees to end up suffering from schizophrenia?
We have never really talked about the local member of an authority, whether it be metropolitan county, metropolitan district, shire county or shire district authority.
We are saying that the needs of each metropolitan county council are different and that they must satisfy and respond to those needs.
We have had from him on occasions the suggestion that if we abolish the metropolitan county councils ratepayers' money will be saved.
The main opposition party on four of the metropolitan county councils has expressed support for our proposal to abolish the councils.
The metropolitan county will lack all the glamorous services which have obvious member appeal.
We set out our proposals for the boundaries of the new metropolitan county and the metropolitan districts in a recent circular.
Both will be related to the same metropolitan county.
