merging

Normally town halls can only use cash from such asset sales on projects designed to reduce their operating costs, such as merging back-office functions or moving services online.

Albertsons confirmed to multiple publications, including Grocery Dive and Supermarket News, that it is merging its Intermountain Division, which includes Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, with its Denver Division, which covers Colorado and surrounding states.

The “literal” merging takes us back to the show’s supernatural elements — if they even exist, and aren’t just projections of our unmedicated and malnourished characters’ fraying mental states.

It involves existing councils merging to create single authorities that provide all the services in their area, and then, in many places, working together under the umbrella of a local mayor.

In addition to merging councils, the government has also said it wants more places in England to have mayors, who would get powers over areas such as housing and transport.