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CountyWatch
CountyWatch is a direct action group in the United Kingdom that was set up in 2004 to remove what they consider to be wrongly placed county boundary signs that do not mark the historic or ancient county boundaries of England and Wales. Since 2005, Count Nikolai Tolstoy has been Patron of CountyWatch. CountyWatch and its supporters claim to have removed, re-sited or erected 80 county boundary signs in Dorset, County Durham, Greater Manchester, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, Somerset and Warwickshire.
A prominent member of the group is Anthony Bennett, a British politician. In May 2002 Bennett was prosecuted for removing 29 metric road signs that he claimed were illegal and that he was preventing the law from being broken. He buried the signs in four locations under bushes. Initially found guilty of theft and criminal damage, his theft conviction was overturned in October 2002 on appeal. The judge stated that "there was no evidence of dishonesty or that he intended to permanently deprive the owners of their signs." His conviction for criminal damage was upheld, but the Judge discharged the sentence, which had been 50 hours of community service.
==Beliefs==
CountyWatch sees the abolition of democratically elected county councils in the UK as part of a long-term project to weaken the constituent nations of Europe, notably the UK, and to concentrate power at two levels: Brussels (the European Commission) and the "regions" within countries. CountyWatch believes in taking direct action within the law to counter aspects of this project.〔Tony Bennett, "The Counties" Association of British Counties newsletter, Spring 2006〕
There have been similar illegal acts before. The former county of Humberside was extremely unpopular with some of its residents. The book ''The Fight for Yorkshire'' by Michael Bradford detailed a series of cases where signs were altered to read "East Riding of Yorkshire" in North Humberside.〔''The Fight for Yorkshire'', Michael Bradford, Hutton Press, Beverley, 1988〕 None of these acts were ever prosecuted and in 1996 Humberside was abolished.
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