Boundaries changes are not new. Back in the '70s the biggest baddest Shire of them all had been a stumbling block to Mr Heath's party progress and so it was decreed, through the local government act of 1972, that the red Riding's hoods be carved up. Large areas of less populated countryside containing the more affluent and the landowners became one county and smaller but highly populated areas another. Part of the particularly populous yet very red North Riding, Teeside, was given the bum's rush out of the Shire of York and renamed Cleveland County. A cunning move that left the rest of the North Riding vulnerable to Mrs Thatcher's charms. Nowt so queer as folk eh!