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There are millions now regretting voting Trump in, he’s a totally incompetent lying idiot, I don’t know who pulls his stings but they are the ones making the promised changes, and they not all bad but.. many are illegal and even against their constitution, when he goes off script and goes on a totally irrelevant lying rant making ridicules claims we see him as the real lying idiot that he is. I live in Alberta, there is a big movement about leaving Canada and going alone, the western Provinces Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia are also talking about it too. The west has the resources and the East has the population. Quebec and Ontario bleed the west and the west is getting tired of it! I’d rather fix Canada than split it! Quebec is the problem. Carney was elected because of the Trump situation, he made many promises, none have been kept yet, although I did like his approach to making Canada more independent from USA. When we have our national elections the outcome has been decided before Alberta vote, six time zones.

I He will do what all politicos do and try to capitalise on things which mostly would have happened anyway, because the money was right. When you say he can't be trusted I think there are an awful lot of people who'd disagree with you. That's because he's one of the few leaders in modern times that has actually done what he claimed he was going to do. They'd say that a lot of the trading relationships with the US were fundamentally unbalanced. That very many countries had been parasitic on the US economy for a very long time, and that it was ordinary US workers who'd paid the price. Brexit started to unwind some of the unbalanced trading relationship that the UK had, and that was a product of ordinary working people seeing some of the reality of what the political classes had been up to. Unfortunately we still allow ourselves to be guilt tripped by the Irish Republic, and prop up their economy, despite their repeated efforts to undermine ours. I'm not sure what province you are in, but I've been hearing rumblings that there's a fundamental split in Canada starting with Alberta then all points West. If I was living there I'd be seriously considering joining one of the separatist movements advocating a more harmonious relationship with the USA. Ditching (that UK economic reject) Carney's socialist globalism has to be the way forward for ordinary Canadians. What on earth were you lot thinking electing him of all people? He has FAIL written on his forehead!

Arch enemy #1 "the evil orange man" is no friend of ours, he certainly can't be trusted and I hope the project isn't relying on him! Our similar projects are on hold partly because of the instability he is causing, Canada is diversifying our economy because of his hostility and radical changes .

Hi Vic! I suspect we are going to hear something from your good friend "the evil orange man" quite soon. Maybe one of those Gordon Brown things of announcing the very same money multiple times, on the assumption that the average voter has a very short memory. 😀 https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/blackrock-invest-700-million-uk-data-centres-during-trump-visit-sky-news-reports-2025-09-13/

Has anyone out there got any poems written by my godmother Ellen Lyall I am looking to publish a book of her poetry. Thanks Pegwoman

I see funding is approved, excellent.

They have now got planning permission to revamp one of the old buildings on the platform there into a heritage themed café.

Thank you Mal, yes fingers crossed.

Vic, There is a bit of update on this.............. The last of the developments will rely on a further £40M of funding being found! NCC are being asked for £10M while the rest is coming from government and The NE Mayoral authority. Fingers crossed they all agree! The NCC meeting to agree is tomorrow and Ill be watching with some interest!

Any progress/ updates?

Any progress/ updates? still 2026?

Hi I have lived in Glastonbury Town for 35 years, as you know we all have heard of Glastonbury Festival which takes place at Worthy Farm Pilton generally last week of June, I have been many times, I know Michael Eavis not well but I have met him on a few occasions, I don't go to Pilton (Glastonbury Festival) anymore the last time I was there in a sea of mud met Herbie Hancock and thanked him for all the great music he has performed from Miles Davis to his own band the Headhunters, he was a very nice man. What is unique about Glastonbury, been one of the seats of early Christianity one of the most prestigious Abbeys in Britain until it was ransacked by King Henry the VIII and the Abbot Richard Whiting Hung ,drawn and quarted and left hanging in the Tower at the top of Glastonbury Tor. You also have the Chalice Well famous spring for it's water along with independent shops that attracts about 500,000 people to the town through the year people from all over the world come to this small Market Town in Somerset population 10,000 so what is the Unique Selling Point (USP) for this town to attract so many visitors? It's quite liberal and tolerant as we get all sorts of people some on a quest of self-realisation others just to come for the experience, there is a lot of artistic murals and a healthy music scene plus alternative therapy's available if your into that sort of thing. So as you see if your town offers something that you don't get anywhere, you will get visitors and create a alternative experience that has an overall positive economic effect for Glastonbury Town. I think that the good people of Bedlington live in a satellite town due to been close to Newcastle Upon Tyne, and as it seems the lack of investment in the town has had a detrimental effect on the potential for business growth in the town, as Bedlington has some beautiful Countryside and parks and not been to far from the sea also. Lets hope in the very near future that Bedlington gets some real investment to improve what the town has got to offer and to bring that extra quality of life the everyone deserves in the 21st Century. Yours in the Spirit of Co-operation. M G Allan.

Hi Ajeans I found your post and just wanted to touch base with you, these are my relatives as well. Mr Wilkinson married Mary Chapman, I remember when Mr Wilkinson passed away in 1970 ! He was my Great Great Grandfather. My Great Grandfather passed away in 1987, 2 days after my 21st birthday. William Henry Green who married, Dorothy Irene Wilkinson both rest in Woronora side by side (cremated) Both Mr Wilkinson and Mary Chapman are burried together, side by side, in the Scarborough Wombarra Cemetery, I visited them quite often but I have since moved away, to find their grave it is on the right hand side of the road, near the tap, its a double dark brick headstone, I do have photos of it. Feel free to contact me anytime, my email address is... [PM a moderator for the email address] Regards Tracey Hughes.

Uk doesn’t have free speech unless it depends on what side of the fence you sit on I’m afraid politically correct ok not politically correct no chance

What..!!! Bedlington back of the queue?! This has never happened in the whole of history... Oh, ah.., now that you come to mention it: we've been there so many many times! How about getting some plaques to hang under the Welcome to Bedlington signs that read: Twinned with If Only.

Way back in 1992/3, I moved back to Bedlington briefly, and rented a flat (16a) in that building, for a year. It was when it had just been renovated and converted into flats. I then moved away again 🤣

Oh wow. I wonder what happened to it after John Maddison Sweeney left?

I happened to own it (jointly) for quite a few years. Was going to move in, but never did. Good sound building: they don't build them like that any more! Goodness, I hope it's "still standing"!