内容摘要：“Our focus is now on looking towards the future, and supporting our fantastic staff and families in the refuge and the community to transition to the new provider."

“Our focus is now on looking towards the future, and supporting our fantastic staff and families in the refuge and the community to transition to the new provider."

City leaders have previously argued the council's tight boundaries contribute to their financial problems because about 80% of its properties fall under council tax bands A or B - so an option like this may help them.Under this scenario, Nottingham city would join with Broxtowe and Rushcliffe, with the other districts and boroughs combining to create another separate authority.

This may look somewhat like option one, but with Gedling and Rushcliffe switching places.Either of these options could be unpopular with some people in the boroughs surrounding the city however,Broxtowe Borough Council leader Milan Radulovic told the BBC he objects to any merger with the city.

"The only way it seems the city can get out of their problems is by taking over cash-rich authorities like Broxtowe in the locality, and that will be very, very hostilely met by people," he said.This would keep the current boundary between the city and the county in place but would do away with the two-tiered system in the latter.

This is the preferred option of the Conservative leader of Nottinghamshire County Council, Sam Smith, who argues that services in current county areas could suffer if they were to join with the city.

It would, however, mean the population of the city council - currently about 320,000 - would remain below the government's aim of 500,000, so it would do nothing to help with the city's low council tax base.Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said five crews from Skegness, Wainfleet, Spilsby and Alford attended the scene with two crews still on site.

A police spokesperson said the investigation into the cause of the blaze was "at the very early stages" and said officers were "keeping an open mind".The force said the next of kin of two people who died had been informed and were being supported by specially trained officers.

National Grid said following the fire its engineers had disconnected and isolated the electricity supply in the area to allow the police and fire service to carry out their investigation."We will be working to restore power to 50 locally affected customers as soon as those investigations have been completed," a spokesperson for the National Grid said.