Researchers in Malaysia have confirmed a link between fruit bats and a recently discovered virus that killed more than 100 people last year and compelled authorities to slaughter roughly a million pigs.

It also enables the NLPG to compel local authorities to maintain their LLPGs and thus ensure the nationwide coverage and compliance by local authorities.

In December 1940, the French-Thai War erupted and despite French resistance against the Japanese backed Thai forces, Japan compelled French authorities to cede Battambang province to Thailand.

Adams was one of the medical men who, when the Food and Drugs Act compelled local authorities to appoint public analysts knowledgeable in chemistry.

The Law Society is not opposed to competitive tendering in itself - now widespread for commercial legal work - and indeed is working with the Department of the Environment on the Government's plans to compel local authorities to put their legal services out to tender.

In response the Society rejected the need to compel local authorities to put out aspects of their legal services to competitive tender.

The Act converted the permissive policy,allowing local authorities to sell their houses, into a mandatory one which compelled local authorities to sell houses to tenants who expressed a wish to purchase the houses they were occupying.

This has led to the NLPG being unable to compel local authorities to maintain their LLPGs as well as protracted negotiations regarding issues of ownership of address data.

Community organising starts with the recognition that change can only come about when communities come together to compel public authorities and businesses to respond to the needs of ordinary people.