This is creeping 'regionalisation' with reduced accountability, and part of the undeclared policy of fragmenting England. No doubt Wiltshire and Gloucestershire will be next. Alan England. ---------- At 23:33 25/01/2014, MM wrote: > > >Devon and Somerset county councils are proposing to merge their heritage and >museum services into a new Trust, see : > >http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/councildemocracy/record_office/heritage_trust. >htm > > >The Trustee briefing pack gives more detail: > > > <http://www.devon.gov.uk/trust_pack-2.pdf> >http://www.devon.gov.uk/trust_pack-2.pdf > > >Mike > >------------------------------------------ >The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon >( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and >the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) >List archive for Devon can be found at >http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message