BBC Panorama spent months in South Yorkshire meeting people already changing how they work, to see what it will take to fix a health service which is buckling under increasing demand.
And Dorset Council has teamed up with Wiltshire and Somerset for a "Heart of Wessex" plan.BCP (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole) is not currently included in either but has a meeting on Wednesday to decide which it could join, or whether to fight to have its own mayor.
The leader of BCP Millie Earl said: "Our travel to work and wider economic area includes parts of the Dorset council area and parts of Hampshire, neither deal really works for us."The council leaders in Hampshire say no, it would mean less.The new combined authority would have its own staff but the new mayor would replace the current Police and Crime Commissioner.
Lorna Fielker, leader of Southampton city council, said councils currently have to go "cap in hand" to government asking for pots of money for projects.She added the process is time consuming and can be exasperating, because "pet projects" of the government get funding, not what local areas need.
But Ed Blake, Conservative opposition councillor on Isle of Wight Council, said there was uncertainty over the role of mayor.
"We don't know yet what powers this person will have, and we don't want someone from the mainland having control over Island planning, for example," he said.Part of the message reads: "The German War is now over.
"At Rheims last night the instrument of surrender was signed which in effect is a surrender of all personnel of the German forces all equipment and shipping and all machinery in Germany."Reflecting on the message 80 years later, Mr Morgan, said: "I was so pleased to get it because, like all of us, we all wanted to get back home... but you can't do it overnight."
He met the Princess of Wales on Monday as part of VE Day commemorations at Buckingham Palace.John James Woodman was born on 1 July 1919 in the Aston area of Birmingham.