Alec Duthie, who helps run farmers' markets in Leicestershire, says that the county town's charter, protecting what claims to be one of Europe's largest covered markets, has made it impossible to set up farmers' markets nearby.
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He said the fact that the town is the county town which is where the county and borough councils are based, as well as the scheme whereby retailers make contributions towards cleaning, security and marketing means Taunton is in good shape to attract other retailers to fill the derelict shops.
Gas drilling company Lenape Resources, based in western New York, had sued the Livingston County town of Avon and the state Department of Environmental Conservation over the town's moratorium on drilling, saying the action threatened to put it out of business after it had operated in the town for decades.
The town board in the Tompkins County town of Dryden, 40 miles southwest of Syracuse, voted unanimously in August 2011 to amend the zoning law to ban gas drilling.
They settled well north of Seattle, on Samish Bay in the Skagit County town of Blanchard, just thirty miles from the Canadian border.
The vacated site of a former young offenders centre in the County Down town was left untouched for years.
The county or town vote is put into statistical models, and Edison makes estimates and projections using those models.
The ban on drilling in the Tompkins County town of Dryden was originally challenged by Denver-based Anschutz Exploration Corp.
There were disturbances at The Square in the County Antrim town on Friday.
The County Fermanagh town is marking the 25th anniversary of the IRA Poppy Day bomb that claimed 12 lives.
Earlier this month, another local Supreme Court judge upheld a challenge to a drilling ban in the Livingston County town of Avon.
The project is on a tributary of the Ausable River in the Essex County town of Jay, where an undersized culvert has caused severe erosion.
In 2000, Democratic Unionist Party councillors objected to the proposal because of alleged derogatory remarks Neeson made about his experiences growing up in the County Antrim town.
Mr Dunne said the County Down town had "great potential" and needed to be actively promoted so that it was "a place that people wanted to visit".
Twenty-nine people died and more than 200 were injured when a car bomb, left by the Real IRA, exploded in the County Tyrone town on 15 August 1998.
Twenty-nine people were killed and more than 200 injured in a car bomb, left by the dissident republican Real IRA, in the County Tyrone town on 15 August 1998.
Her work with the residents of the nationalist Garvaghy Road, who were in dispute with Protestant Orangemen over parades in the County Armagh town of Portadown at Drumcree, was particularly high profile.
Mullins have been making and selling ice cream in the small County Londonderry town since 1954.
No-one has been criminally convicted of the bomb attack that devastated the County Tyrone market town in August 1998.
The small County Londonderry town is more than 100km (62 miles) from Belfast.
Tojo dropped in to the County Cork seaside town of Clonakilty during the Second World War when a US bomber had to land nearby.
In the Middlefield case, dairy farmer Jennifer Huntington, owner of Cooperstown Holstein, is appealing the ruling of a state Supreme Court judge in Otsego County upholding the town's drilling ban.
He's been campaigning in rural counties since the caucuses, and he now has four offices open, including one in Lyon County in the town of Fernley.
The Institute of Fundraising said it wanted to work with the county council to manage sites in the town centre.
He headed to another significant Celtic site, the Rock of Cashel, in the town of Cashel, County Tipperary, about 94km north of Cork, which then rivalled Tara as a centre of power in Ireland.
The county council and Newhaven Town Council successfully challenged this ruling at the Court of Appeal.
The county councillor for the town, Bob Ellison, said he does not believe this will happen.
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That county includes the town of Kingston, where Adam Lanza's father, Peter, was raised.
Community councils were created at the same time as the major reorganisation of local government in the mid-70s which abolished the old town and county councils and created regions such as Strathclyde and Tayside.
And I think there is a democratic deficit in this country and it is about how we get power not just from Whitehall to the County Hall or the Town Hall, it's also how do we involve local people at street and neighbourhood level.
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