Local authorities credited the men with saving the girl's life.

The Local Government Act ( 1992 ) established a commission ( Local Government Commission for England ) to examine the issues, and make recommendations on where unitary authorities should be established.

Local cricket authorities went out of their way to cater for the needs of the team and the sponsors.

The centerpiece of the deregulation was the establishment of two categories of basic services licenses: Local loop ( LL ), for fixed line telecommunication within the 14 PTCL regions, and Long-distance and International ( LDI ), for connectivity between regions .” Two sets of criteria set by the regulatory authorities must be met before an operator is allowed to start operation: one for the issuance of a license and another for the maintenance of service quality.

A recent example, is when a court ruled that it was illegal for local authority councils to hold prayers before undertaking the council business ( though part of the session ) and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government signed a Parliamentary Order approved by Parliament, to overrule the court and legally allow all local authorities to hold prayers at sessions.

Local authorities in the UK are usually responsible for running education, emergency services, planning, transport, social services, and a number of other functions.

Category: Local authorities in London

Category: Local authorities adjoining the River Thames

* Local planning and code authorities

Local authorities could declare ‘ general improvement areas ’ in which they would be able to buy up land and houses, and spend environmental improvement grants.

Section 11 of the 1966 Local Government Act enabled local authorities to claim grants to recruit additional staff to meet special needs of Commonwealth immigrants.

The First Wilson Government made assistance to deprived urban communities a specific policy of national government in 1969 with the passage of the Local Government Grants ( Social Need ) Act, which empowered the Home Secretary to dispense grants to assist local authorities in providing extra help to areas “ of special social need .” The Urban Aid Programme was subsequently launched to provide community and family advice centres, centres for the elderly, money for schools and other services, thereby alleviating urban deprivation.

Local council elections for Gower were held on 3 May 2012, along with wards in 21 / 22 local authorities in Wales.

Local government in Scotland is arranged on the lines of unitary authorities, with the nation divided into 32 council areas.

Within the region the local transport authorities carry out transport planning through the use of a Local Transport Plan ( LTP ) which outlines their strategies, policies and implementation programme.

The transport authorities of Bath and North East Somerset U. A., Bristol U. A., North Somerset U. A. and South Gloucestershire U. A. publish a single Joint Local Transport Plan as part of the West of England Partnership.

In the United Kingdom, " unitary authorities " are English local authorities set up in accordance with the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994 made under powers conferred by the Local Government Act 1992 to form a single tier of local government in specified areas and which are responsible for almost all local government functions within such areas.

While outwardly appearing to be similar, single-tier authorities formed using older legislation are not Unitary Authorities thus excluding e. g. the Isle of Wight Council or any other single-tier authority formed under the Local Government Act 1972 or older legislation.

Local authorities in Scotland are unitary in nature but not in name.

Local authorities in Wales are unitary in nature and are described by the Local Government ( Wales ) Act 1994 as " principal councils ", and their areas as principal areas.

Local farm workers, impoverished by a succession of droughts and failed harvests, were employed at one shilling per day ( enough to sustain a family in the Georgian era ) to tunnel beneath ground and mine chalk and flint.

The Local Government Boundary Commission reviewed the existence of Humberside from 1985 to 1988, but found that " that Humberside County Council could not be shown to have failed ".

Local education has failed in the misery belt ‘ because those driving this society are, as a class, anti-intellectual and unimaginative.

Two years after that, BoB acquired the failed Gujarat Local Area Bank.

Although the album was chosen as one of the " Top 10 Local Album Releases for 2004 " by the Taipei Times, the change in music style and direction drifted away from the common acceptance level of mass Mandarin pop music listeners and therefore, the album failed to perform in the charts.

The Highway Act 1835 and subsequent acts ( Public Health Act 1875, Local Government Act 1888 and Local Government Act 1894 ) attempted to find satisfactory methods of maintaining roads since the UK Turnpike Trust system had failed following the UK railway boom.

On December 16, 2005, after failed negotioations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA ) of New York City, the Local 100 of the TWU announced it will halt operations on two private bus lines and threatened to extend the strike to other buses and trains.

Local interest in hockey had also failed to recover after the demise of the Express.

At April 2011 the western part of the site was proposed as an Enterprise Zone by the Local Enterprise Partnership, but the bid did not conform to the government guidelines and so failed.

Local Democratic Party boss Joseph P. Kennedy exploited her fame for political uses and also tried and failed to seduce her.

Local tradition has it that his wife would camp on the nearby Strawberry Island ( which was visible from the open sea ) and signal him with a fire on the island's summit to alert him to whether or not it was safe to bring his illegal cargo ashore.

Local government officials may authorize use of this signal to alert the public of peacetime emergencies.

Local people became famous for sharing their meager food with the starving strangers.

Local Afro-Portuguese often acted as middlemen, the Europeans advancing them goods and they trading them to the local people, most often for ivory.

Sustainable development ( SD ) is a pattern of economic growth in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come ( sometimes taught as ELF-Environment, Local people, Future ).

Local governments directly serve the needs of the people, providing everything from police and fire protection to sanitary codes, health regulations, education, public transportation, and housing.

There was also the McDonald's Our Town Story project in which each Local Education Authority in the UK was invited to perform a show of their devising which characterised their area and its people.

Local estimates place the population of the college, 3, 948 people strong, at about 1 / 8 black, 1 / 2 Jewish, with other races making up the balance.

; Local community displacement: Gift shops and cafés which cater for the needs of tourists are often more profitable than shops selling everyday goods for local people ( such as butchers or bakers ).

Local herders see wild animals as unregulated public property subsidized by the work of the local people.

Local people were forced to pay tribute at Qing posts, and Qing officials granted some titles to local elders and entrusted them with the task of " keeping the peace ".

Local Buddhist temples are popular spots as people like to give donations and to get their fortunes told during Tết.

Local people and tourists have led a demand for steam locos to once again haul this section.

Local Colors is a multi-cultural program which recognizes people of diverse origins, races and ethnic backgrounds and sponsors the annual Local Colors Festival in the third weekend of May.

# Local people set up an organization to trade between themselves, often paying a small membership fee to cover administration costs

Local people and their images can also be turned into commodities " ( West, 2006 ).

Local indigenous people also have strong resentment towards the change, " Tourism has been allowed to develop with virtually no controls.

Local administration gradually became more self-sufficient, while the breakdown of the old land distribution system and the rise of taxes led to the loss or abandonment of land by many people who became the " wave people " ( furōsha ).

In February 2000, the Salvation Army publicly ( in their publication known as " War Cry " and in a letter to a Scottish Parliament committee ) opposed the repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act ( 1988 ) However, The Salvation Army in the UK and Ireland website refers to the organisation offering ' unconditional assistance and support regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual choices, respecting the identity and choices of all those referred to them .... As well as having a right to be dealt with professionally, people can expect from us encouragement and a respect for their individual beliefs, ambitions and preferences.

In 2002, a partnership between Thurrock Council, Thurrock Heritage Forum and the Thurrock Local History Society began an initiative to place heritage plaques marking the famous people, events and organisations associated with Thurrock.

Local tourism is increasing as more people are attracted to the area, which is also known as the center of " Steinbeck Country " because of famed author John Steinbeck.

Local hero Augustus Smith MP ( 1804 ) led gangs of local and hired men from London's East End brought out on the new railway on a specially chartered train to break the fences and protect Berkhamsted Common for the people of Berkhamsted.

( Local people pronounce Shokan like " show can ", though some people sometimes pronounce it to rhyme with " spoken.

Local artists, writers, theorists and crafts people contribute exhibits.