Local groups have argued for a reinstatement of the rail link south to Manchester via Haslingden and Bury, that was closed in the 1960s.

Local groups increasingly find that they benefit from collaboration, e. g. on consensus decision making methods, or making simultaneous policy, or relying on common legal resources, or even sometimes a common glossary.

The Local Group itself is a part of a cloud-like structure within the Virgo Supercluster, a large, extended structure of groups and clusters of galaxies centered on the Virgo Cluster.

The approximate center of the group is located at a distance of 3. 6 Mpc, making it one of the nearest groups to the Local Group.

The M81 Group, the Local Group, and other nearby groups all lie within the Virgo Supercluster ( i. e. the Local Supercluster ).

The group is one of the closest groups of galaxies to the Local Group ; the distance to the center of the group from the Milky Way is approximately.

Local groups across the nation could join by filling out an application.

Local performance groups include the Off Centre Theatre Company, Monmouth Operatic Society, Monmouth Choral Society, and the Merlin Society, one of the largest music societies in the country.

Local government in the Palestinian National Authority-controlled areas are divided into three main groups: Municipal councils, village council and local development committees.

Local currencies and the Transition Towns movement in the UK have received criticism for a failure to address the needs of the wider population, especially lower socio-economic groups.

Local bus services are provided by Badgerline, Nippy Bus, National Express and local community groups.

Local dance schools and clubs include Lewes Dance Club, East Sussex Dance and ballet groups.

Local leadership came from groups and organizations affiliated with the PLO that operated within the Occupied Territories ; Fatah, the Popular Front, the Democratic Front and the Palestine Communist Party.

Local groups often assumed that the findings of these commissions entitled them to act against offending landlords themselves.

Local citizen, special interest, and political groups lobby Congress for authorization and appropriations for specific projects in their area.

Local names for these are: Yabs, Cafres, Malbars and Zarabes ( both ethnic groups of Indian origin ) and Chinois ( Réunion ).

Several local groups are protesting this development, including Hackney Unites, the Hackney Liberal Democrat Party, and Stokey Local, a group formed by local business leaders and residents.

Local civic and historic groups rose up and demanded that this historically and architecturally significant building be spared.

Local groups have tried to encourage recovery, but have been unsuccessful due to lack of funding or interest.

Local groups have worked to preserve Beaufort's historic character and significant architecture.

Local protest groups, led by colonial merchants and landowners, established connections through correspondence that created a loose coalition that extended from New England to Georgia.

Local Age Concerns vary from small village groups to countywide organisations.

" Local groups across the nation could join by filling out an application.

Some of the most famous samba-schools include GRES Estação Primeira de Mangueira, GRES Portela, GRES Imperatriz Leopoldinense, GRES Beija-Flor de Nilópolis, GRES Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel, and recently, Unidos da Tijuca and GRES União da Ilha do Governador Local tourists are allowed to participate, paying ($ 500 – 950 ), depending on the costume, to buy a Samba costume and dance in the parade through the Sambadrome with one of the schools.

Local churches, businesses, and organizations create floats for the parade based on Bible stories.

Local youth, church, and adult organizations participate in a parade.

A Christmas parade is held each year with a tree-lighting ceremony, as well the annual community fish fry hosted by the Local Chapter of the Ruritan.

Local schools also participate in the parade, which has a different theme each year.

Local celebrity jockey Frankie Dettori in the parade ring at Newmarket after riding in the 2005 2, 000 Guineas Stakes | 2, 000 Guineas.

Local tradition has it that " the Tournament has a deal with God ; we'll never hold the parade on a Sunday, and He'll never let it rain on the Rose Parade.

He then walked in a parade up Market Street from the Embarcadero to the San Francisco Civic Center, accompanied by an honor guard of one hundred husky longshoremen with their hooks, led by Mooney's own union, Local 164 of the International Molders ' Union, in the vanguard.

Certain related programming carried locally, such as the Blackhawks ' victory parade following the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs and a half-hour special paying tribute to the late Cubs player and broadcaster Ron Santo in 2011, have also not been shown on WGN America, though in the latter case a few Tribune and Local TV LLC partner stations aired the funeral on their digital subchannels.

The main shopping parade, Walmley Village, was refurbished in 2004 in line with Birmingham City Council's " Walmley Village Local Action Plan ", with new paving surfaces, car parking spaces, and a through road speed limit.

Local services centre around the main thoroughfare of Sea Road, where a large shopping parade has been established for many years.

Local children / teenagers are involved in the parade around the Green and the highlight of the day is the de-crowning of the previous Queen, the " Retiring Queen " ( from the year before ) and the crowning of a new Queen, the " Rose Queen ".

Local Papuans, called Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels by the Australians, assisted and escorted injured Australian troops down the Kokoda trail.

Law 7 / 1985, passed by the former Spanish President Felipe González Márquez ( socialist ), lays down the procedure of the Local Government.

Local legend has it that Welling is so called because in the era of horse-drawn vehicles, it could be said you were " well in " to Kent, or had a " well end " to the journey up and down Shooters Hill which, at the time was steep, had a poor road surface and was a notorious haunt of highwaymen.

Local boys during the 1930s liked to " soap " the trolley rails as a prank, halting the progress of interurban cars until a motorman climbed down and applied sand.

Local mining activity was relatively ephemeral, and the large Forest of Dean Mine was shut down in 1931.

The large mass of the cluster has the effect of slowing down the recession of the Local Group from the cluster by approximately ten percent.

Local cabbie Marcus Barnard slowed down his Peugeot 309 as Ryan crossed in front of him.

Local folklore tells of a coffin found floating down the Thames in Victorian times which was traced back to West Norwood Cemetery.

He stood down as Leader in 1975 and resigned from the Council on taking up a non-partisan job as Assistant Secretary of the Office of the Local Ombudsman.

The Local Government ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1982 stipulated that Westminster could shut down any pornographer that did not hold a license.

Although he was not elected, he succeeded in publicising the issue and the proposal was eventually turned down by the Minister for Local Government, James Tully.

Local interference committees are formed to " track down and resolve repeater jamming problems.

Local memories remember the townspeople sheltering down by the Boyne for a few nights as the Black ' n ' Tans and Auxiliaries burnt out prominent business and the Town Hall.

Negotiations for a new contract between the state and Local 1000 bogged down in 2005-6.

Local stories passed down through the generations have attributed the creation of this style of rice preparation to the seafarers ' need to keep cooked rice from spoiling during long sea voyages.

Local authorities organized paid workers and volunteers to chop down the pines from the peak and most of them are now gone ( although in Newlands Forest on the lower reaches, pine and gum forests are still maintained for recreational purposes ).

Local legend has it that Napoleon originally even wanted to completely tear down the church.

He is presently a member of Carrickfergus Borough Council, although he has recently announced that he is to stand down at the next Local Government election to give an opportunity to " capable younger members who are seeking selection " from the Carrickfergus Division of the UUP.

Local legend holds that they were the work of the Devil, who, sitting one day looking down on the Great North Road, began to amuse himself by heaving clods of earth at the passers-by.

Local leaders refused and Jakarta backed down.

Local Interahamwe, acting in concert with the authorities, used bulldozers to knock down the church building.

He began by orchestrating public demands on Jimmy Walker, the corrupt Tammany Hall Mayor of New York, to crack down on racketeering in the garment district, Hillman then proceeded to seize control of Local 4, expelling Beckerman and Orlofsky from the union, then taking action against corrupt union officials in Newark, New Jersey.

Local ranchers, who were alerted by the commotion caused in the disaster, rigged up breeches buoys from the surrounding cliff tops and lowered them down to the ships that had run aground.

Local fishermen have handed this down over the centuries.