East Midlands
Proper noun
Meaning
East Midlands
A district in the geographical centre of England, being the counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire.
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According to the 2011 census Leicester had the largest proportion of people aged 19-and-under in the East Midlands at 27 per cent.
Central News East also covered the East Midlands, broadcasting from Lenton Lane in Nottingham from March 1984.
One of these, the Stamford Mercury claims to be Britain's oldest newspaper, although it is now a typical local weekly and no longer covers stories from the whole East Midlands as the archived copies did.
From 1983-2005 Central Television (the ITV region for the East Midlands) had a studio complex on Lenton Lane, producing programmes for various networks and broadcasting regional news.
Government funding decisions moved from Melton Mowbray (the East Midlands Regional Assembly ) to Nottingham (the East Midlands Development Agency ) in April 2010.
However the Dissenters were major voting bloc in many areas, such as East Midlands.