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Essex councils set to be abolished
All 15 councils in Essex will be abolished and replaced with five new local authorities from 2028, as part of the biggest shake-up to local government in the past fifty years, but not everyone is happy.
How is this going to work and what does it mean for a county of nearly 2 million people?
Picture: Hadleigh Castle in the Castle Point borough of Essex.
Credit: Aerial Essex/Getty Images.
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