Nottingham City Council is the city council for the unitary authority of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire. It consists of 55 councillors, representing a total of 20 wards. It is led by Jon Collins, of the majority Labour Party. A city council is the most common style of legislative government in a city or town. ... A unitary authority is a type of local authority, which has a single-tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area. ... Nottingham is a city and county town of Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England. ... Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. ... The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ...
Political control
Elections are usually held to the whole council every four years.
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Nottingham is commonly referred to as the Queen of the Midlands (Birmingham being the capital), so is thought to be the second most important city in the Midlands as a whole.
Founded as a Saxon settlement, Nottingham was later captured by the Danes (Vikings) and in the 9th century became one of the five boroughs (fortified towns) of the Danelaw.
Nottingham is home to the headquarters of Boots the Chemists, founded in the city by John Boot in 1849 and substantially expanded by his son Jesse Boot.