Our inspiring County Council take place (5)

I believe the answer is:

occur

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'take place' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'our inspiring county council' is the wordplay.
'inspiring' is an insertion indicator.
'county council' becomes 'cc' (this might be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'our' going around 'cc' is 'OCCUR'.

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(Other definitions for occur that I've seen before include "Happen, transpire" , "crop up" , "Come to pass" , "Spring to mind" , "Go on" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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