Related Clues:

• Commuter train stops
• Conurbations
• A hundred and one restrictions in places like London
• Channel Islands' connections to London and Paris
• Criers' workplaces
• Boston and Chicago
• 7-Down et al
• Local news coverage
• Column inches, leaders and links to Washington and Moscow
• State map's dots
• Florence and Charlotte
• Markings on a map
• Receptionists missing Preston, Manchester and London, for example?
• Dots on a globe
• They're larger than villages