With more than a sense of "Here we are again", the Local Government (Scotland) Act of 1973 (c.65) reorganized the whole business again, into nine Regional Councils, each comprising a number of District Councils. The Islands were given unitary councils. The nine Regions were Highland, Grampian, Tayside, Fife, Lothian, Central, Borders, Dumfries & Galloway and the ludicrously large Strathclyde Region, which in population was only a little smaller than all of the other Regions put together.
By the time the whole system was, incredibly, revised again, in 1995, all 53 District Councils, 3 Island Councils and eight of the nine Regional Councils had recorded arms, The defaulter was the megalithic Strathclyde - indeed, given its size, it is surprising the Council ever managed to agree on anything.
