• The Parades Commission, which makes the decisions about whether restrictions are placed on contentious marches, places emphasis on attempts to gain local agreement.

    BBC: Drumcree protest on 700th day

  • Assuming New York's state public service commission approves the Smithtown franchise this week, residents will soon be able to order Verizon television service, and the company will be close to its 200th local agreement nationwide, covering more than 3.5 million households.

    FORBES: Verizon's Big TV Bet Goes Small-Town

  • Foundation schools may decide to do building work without getting local authority agreement - but they cannot raise a loan on the buildings and of course it means they have to put right anything that goes wrong.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Analysis: school reforms

  • All unions have signed an outline agreement in local government.

    BBC: Pensions - Deal or No Deal?

  • Some services are sometimes provided under contract or service level agreement with a local authority in pursuit of its statutory duties towards children.

    BBC: Education Committee

  • It would be "subject to agreement with interested local authorities on a funding package, and decisions at the next spending review construction", it said.

    BBC: A14 at rush-hour

  • Cattle used to graze rare habitats across Surrey during the summer will spend winters on a local farm, under an agreement with the National Trust.

    BBC: Belted Galloway

  • To extend its reach, the Japanese company, known for its high-definition televisions and camcorders but a minor player in the smartphone market, signed an agreement with a local firm, Jaina Mobile India Pvt.

    WSJ: Panasonic Pins Hopes on Smartphones in India

  • But Wiltshire and Somerset councils together with the Highways Agency objected to the plan, claiming the proposal had "not followed the required process by securing agreement from other affected local authorities".

    BBC: Bath loses fight to ban lorries from Cleveland Bridge

  • The agreement says nothing about local elections scheduled for July 9th, which Fatah is keen to hold because it thinks it will win them, and which Hamas wants to cancel, fearing it will lose.

    ECONOMIST: Palestinian reconciliation

  • It gave money to local businesses on the basis of an agreement between itself, the employers and the trade unions.

    BBC: Wainwright: Livingstone led the way

  • The agreement has been blamed by local authorities for adding to school expenses, which contributed to the recent funding crisis.

    BBC: teacher photocopying

  • Many of the central elements of the Good Friday Agreement, such as a local assembly with shared responsibility between the two communities, have been Alliance policy for years.

    BBC: Profile - John Alderdice

  • Its organisers, who say they are modelling it on the Scottish body which drew up the plans for a parliament now being set up north of the border, secured agreement on January 25th from local councils that they would join the convention.

    ECONOMIST: English devolution: Regional awakening | The

  • Councils signed the "single status agreement" in 1997, committing local authorities to delivering equal pay for women workers where their wages had fallen behind the men.

    BBC: Female workers win in pay ruling

  • Despite not being in the European Union, the island signed up to the EU fish quota system as part of an agreement with the UK over managing local fish stocks.

    BBC: Jersey States discussing local fish quotas

  • There's been a coalition agreement in Scotland on fair votes for local government.

    BBC: News | UK Politics | Charles Kennedy's speech in full

  • "The unanimous feeling of over 80 local residents was the council should tear up the agreement with SFP, throw them off the site and start talking about alternative uses, " he said.

    BBC: Ramsgate residents call to 'tear up' seaside flats plan

  • This follows the publication last year of an agreement between the government and the Welsh Local Government Association that sets out targets for the two establishments for the current government's term.

    BBC: Debate on public service reform

  • An IBA is an agreement made between a mining company and a local community establishing formal relationships between the two.

    FORBES: Plan Nord: Quebec's First Diamond Mine "Getting Their Ducks In A Row" In 2012

  • The first outcome of this agreement is likely to be new powers for local councils, to be announced in next year's white paper on transport, allowing them to earmark the proceeds of road-pricing schemes for local transport.

    ECONOMIST: Taxation

  • Fighting continues in the region despite the JEM and local government signing a "goodwill and confidence-building" agreement earlier in February, according to the U.N.

    CNN: U.N.: 15,000 flee southern Darfur

  • Intense discussions have been continuing in an attempt to achieve some movement on the issues before the forthcoming local government and General Elections move the focus away from finding agreement.

    BBC: Talks to revive NI peace process

  • Cohen, who has been leading the talks since last year, says the agreement remains subject to ratification by both parties and additional local union negotiations.

    WSJ: Ports, longshoremen avert strike

  • Mr Pickles alleged that a badly drafted Private Finance Initiative (PFI) agreement signed by GMWDA - which represents all of the local authorities in Greater Manchester - had pushed up the council tax waste levy.

    BBC: Eric Pickles: Greater Manchester's 'shoddy' waste deal

  • They are already hearing some good news - a senior local government source has told the BBC's Mike Sergeant that agreement has been reached between councils and the unions on the "principles" of a deal.

    BBC: Public sector pensions - on a knife edge

  • But local Unison secretary Gray Allan said the conditions had been imposed without union agreement by effectively dismissing workers and employing them under new contracts.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Tayside and Central | Staff stage walkout amid pay row

  • The Welsh government said that local health boards were responsible for funding the service but it was pleased agreement has been reached "to ensure sufficient resources are available to respond to patients who need an emergency ambulance".

    BBC: Welsh Ambulance Service budget agreed after delay

  • The meeting is scheduled to begin at 1000 local time, but when it will finish depends very much upon how quickly agreement can be reached.

    BBC: Fixtures first test for Scotland manager Craig Levein

  • New parliamentary procedures to enable the local government secretary to put a project of national significance to parliament for debate and agreement on the broad principles ahead of a more detailed inquiry.

    BBC: Planning shake-up unveiled

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