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image captionScarborough council along with the other six district and borough councils will be scrapped
North Yorkshire s county and district councils are to be scrapped and replaced with a single authority covering the whole county.
City of York Council will remain separate but all others will be fused together under a new, unitary authority covering a population of 618,000.
The government decision comes after a consultation earlier this year.
It has been met with dismay by district and borough leaders who wanted to retain key services.
Under the reorganisation plans, the current two-tier system, which has been in place since 1974, will be replaced with a unitary authority.
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