Local pundits and urban planners referred to the town as " Dead Bank ".

If input tax is greater than output tax the company can claim back money from the Local Tax Authority.

Local nobles resisted the claim, but William invaded and by 1064 had secured control of the area.

The Local Government Board Act 1871 put the supervision of the Poor Law under the Local Government Board ( headed by G. J. Goschen ) and Gladstone's " administration could claim spectacular success in enforcing a dramatic reduction in supposedly sentimental and unsystematic outdoor poor relief, and in making, in co-operation with the Charity Organization Society ( 1869 ), the most sustained attempt of the century to impose upon the working classes the Victorian values of providence, self-reliance, foresight, and self-discipline ".

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.

Local legends claim he achieved heavier-than-air flight before the Wright Brothers, though there is no historical evidence.

Local myths claim the head remains in Beddington park or was inherited by his son and buried with him.

Those superintelligences claim a domain as theirs, consisting of up to several galaxies ( the entity known as " IT " has the Local Group as personal domain ).

Local legends claim that the idol of Ganesha continuously grows in size.

Local farmers claim that citrus crop yields have been lowered by contaminated dust blowing in.

Local sources claim that it was the first town in the country to have electric street lighting.

Local legend holds that Vyšehrad was the location of the first settlement which later became Prague, though thus far this claim remains unsubstantiated.

Local folk memory would claim that the large stones erected along the avenue from the main entrance were originally from the ancient chapel that O ' Laverty refers to in his History of Down and Connor.

Local iwi objected however, and filed a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal.

Local law enforcement officials claim no recollection of the incident, and there is no record of an arrest warrant against Patton or an actual arrest.

Local villagers, fishers, workers and environmentalists claim that shipping companies should assume their responsibilities, respecting labour and environmental law.

Local legend and Parkhurst's gravestone claim that Parkhurst was the first female in the United States to vote.

The club remains an Open Championship Local Final Qualifying course, and hosted qualifying again in 2011 when The Open returned to Royal St. George's ; Prince's professional golfer Francis McGuirk finished tied second to claim one of the three available spaces.

Local folklore says that royalty may have visited Welton Place but no evidence has been uncovered to substantiate this claim.

Local environmental activists claim that the mining operations, which use large quantities of a dilute cyanide solution, have contaminated the water sources, leading to the disappearance of fish and frogs, illnesses among cattle, air pollution, and loss of medicinal plants.

Local stories claim that Arthur watched the approach of the Saxons from the summit of the hill and that his forces then swept down the hill and massacred them.

Local folklore alludes to the belief that the Indians owned the island and used it as a military fort, while others claim the British held control of it until losing it during the War of 1812.

Local people claim that this is a Hindko word meaning " Sir Bahlol ", a prominent political and religious leader of the area.

Local fishermen are also nearly unanimously against the project, citing the fact that for many of them, up to 60 % of their annual income comes from catch caught on Horseshoe Shoals, which they claim would disappear and would have to be replaced by steaming to fishing grounds farther out to sea if the project is completed.

The Local Government Act of 1888 was the first systematic attempt to impose a standardised system of local government in England.

The Local Government Act was therefore the first systematic attempt to impose a standardised system of local government in England

The following year they won their first election when Marcus Counihan was elected to Killarney Urban District Council during the 1985 Local Elections.

* 1974 – Local farmers in Lintong District, Xi ' an, Shaanxi province, China, discover the Terracotta Army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the 3rd century BCE.

The PCI Local Bus was first implemented in IBM PC compatibles, where it displaced the combination of ISA plus one VESA Local Bus as the bus configuration.

Local elections, the first since 1992, took place on 27 August 2006 and were dominated by members of the ruling coalition.

Local residents brought a class-action lawsuit, one of the first held in Massachusetts, against the United States Industrial Alcohol Company ( USIA ), which had bought Purity Distilling in 1917.

This forms the first mention of the idea of Local Exchange Trading Systems ( LETS ).

Leadville's Annual Boom Days, which takes place the first full weekend in August, has been honored by the United States Congress as a Local Legacy Event.

Bacup's first local authority was a Local board of health established in 1863 ; Bacup Local Board of Health was a regulatory body responsible for standards of hygiene and sanitation in the Bacup Urban Sanitary District.

Local epigraphical evidence is restricted to the decrees of the Epirote League and the Pella curse tablet ( both in early 4th century BC ), as well to the Doric eponym Machatas first attested in Macedonia ( early 5th century BC ).

By 1940, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor had successfully organized Hershey's workers under the leadership of John Shearer, who became the first President of Local Chapter Number 464 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers Union.

Local Republican newspapers painted him as a " vile secessionist ," but the continuing hardships from the Panic of 1873 caused voters to sweep him into office with the first Democratic congressional majority since the Civil War.

But it is not until 1201 that the name Bloomsbury is first noted, when William de Blemond, a Norman landowner, acquired the land .< ref >< cite > Camden Council Local History.

More recently Sainsbury's opened smaller ' Local ' branches on High Road and on Streatham Hill, near the site of the Streatham's first Sainsbury's store ( opened in 1895 ).

Local engineer, Frederick Bremer, built the first motor car in London between 1892 and 1894.

Local entrepreneurs John and Frances French were the primary owners ; between 1851 and 1900, the hotel and property were subject to a number of upgrades and related construction projects including a covered tramway to the summit of the mountain ( first drawn by horse, then mechanized ), a railroad from the base of the mountain to a steamboat dock on the Connecticut River, and the construction of a number of outbuildings and trails.

Realizing the boxing story was not right for Grand Central Station, Serling submitted a lighter piece called Hop Off the Express and Grab a Local, which became his first nationally broadcast piece on September 10, 1949.

Local legend has it that Boswell made the first successful flight, before the Wright Brothers.

Local merchant and rancher William Munds was the first mayor.

Local businessmen were major backers of the first railroad to connect Illinois ' ( then ) two biggest cities — Chicago and Quincy — as well as a third leg initially terminating across the river from Burlington, Iowa, eventually connecting to it via bridge and thence onward to the Western frontier.

Local tradition says the town was named for its first settler, a Spanish laborer working on the Wabash and Erie Canal who built a shack in the area.

* Benjamin Franklin Talbert ( 1875 – 1959 ) Local blacksmith who shoed Sir Barton, the first horse to win the Triple Crown.