1.  The Trade Finance Division of the banks in Belfast not only have their own specialised staff but through their networks of foreign bank relationships have access to the major banks throughout the world and the local knowledge, expertise and specialist skills available therein.

2.  In Britain the police report missing persons to a "mountain rescue controller" who, using his expertise and local knowledge, decides what action to take.

3.  His local knowledge proved indispensable when he was a firefighter because he could guide his colleagues to the scene of a "shout" as accurately as he could deliver a letter.

4.  "Without their local knowledge and contacts it would have taken years for us to achieve what we have managed in a few months," said .

5.  Their assistance and local knowledge were essential for Ness harbour is no haven to make for on a dark night when seas run high.

6.  It was based on their general experience and their general local knowledge of the problems and opportunities and constraints on particular areas.

7.  And Nigel Jones says local knowledge will be the key weapon.

8.  In the same area the awesome belching fumarole crater of White Island volcano at close quarters on foot, you can actually land on a strip along the edge of the crater of Mount Tarawera (although it would be best to clear this first with someone at Rotorua Airport who has up-to-date local knowledge).

9.  Is this, all these wonderful protection of animals, dogs and horses and so on, and pet shops and so on, do, does the Chief Fire Officer think in his local knowledge, that most of these have been inspected by his officers, or does he get the feeling there, that sometimes the district councils are not asking for these inspections?

10.  The wind did not reach the heights on the Beaufort scale registered against Ireland, but Scotland clearly utilised their local knowledge and were less unsettled by its capricious nature.