"Somerset is a separate county from us.
I always wondered why we need a separate county bus system when our buses cross county lines.
The counties of Kilkenny and Carlow are linked for representation in the Irish Parliament, but, for local government and all administrative purposes, Kilkenny has a separate county council.
The town elects three members to Somerset County Council, each from a separate county division.
Wishing to remain independent, the Potteries towns discussed uniting to form a separate county, the Staffordshire Potteries.
The surrender, as Mr. Flinn describes it, was a pre-emptive strike, a way to head off a plan by the separate county school system that could have led to a drastic shortfall in city school revenues.
During the debates associated with the Local Government Bill, Terry Davis MP (Bromsgrove) tabled Amendment Numbers 73, 74 and 100 which proposed maintaining Worcestershire and Herefordshire as separate counties.
The health care agency, which the county spun off as a separate entity in 1999, has a persistent deficit and is running out of money.
Yet some inhabitants of Cornwall, a county in England's south-western tip, think the number should be five, arguing that Cornwall should be treated as a separate nation.As evidence they cite first their county's remoteness: bounded by the sea and separated from the rest of England by the river Tamar.
