Westminster is eroding our identity. Do you agree?20 June 2013
They're neighbours but Bradford is a world apart from Leeds. Just ask the locals. So why should the Government prevent them from making decisions that represent their people?
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Senior campaigner Jane Thomas is proud to be from Sheffield. She believes that people care strongly about the place where they live.
In this interview for Friends of the Earth's research project - Big Ideas Change the World - she insists cities should have greater decision-making powers.
She argues that it's difficult for cities to improve well-being when they have no control over tax or town planning.
Listen to the interview - in four parts.
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Are you proud of where you live?
Would you like your city to have more power over things like tax?
Do you think it would lead to fairer societies? And less of the unrest we've seen from Tottenham to Tahrir to Istanbul in recent years?
Have your say. Comment below.
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