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Hmm! And I use BBC to view British news (but with great caution, and understanding of their obvious bias.) Any recommendations for an additional but genuine less biased news outlet. ?

Computer says NO! Moi? Dropping clues? Very much depends on how one interprets the meaning of "shortly" ... and even "lady".

@threegee and how would a member, like myself and Canny lass, be able to do a redit to a comment that was posted more tha 10 to 15 mins ago?🤞

You'd have thought the Guardianistas at the Beeb would have learned something from being caught out propagating lies about Nigel Farage over his de-banking, and then having to grovel again in March when describing Reform as "far-right". But no, Geeta Guru-Murthy - older sister of Krishnan Guru-Murthy, the equally biased and foul-mouthed Channel 4 News presenter - simply couldn't resist adding a slur to the BBC's coverage of the Reform press conference in Dover. A red-faced BBC had to speedily admit that the words they focused on were in fact the words of their own poster boy Donald Tusk (now the PM of Poland). It seems that in the BBC's world view working British people must tolerate the illegal immigration levels that Poles, of all political persuasions, will no longer tolerate! "... I used language to describe it which didn’t meet the BBC’s editorial standards on impartiality. I’d like to apologise to Mr Farage and viewers for this.” Eternally curious that these frequent infractions of "the BBC’s editorial standards on impartiality" are all one way, and no sanctions are ever applied! Maybe the BBC needs some REAL diversity and inclusion in its recruiting process?

You'd likely better re-edit that: a lady shouldn't be dropping clues to her own age!

Re the fire which destroyed 1 Third Street, I was wrong to say that it was caused by the chip shop. The chip shop and Dr's surgery were destroyed by a fire in my early childhood and they were in a lean-to wooden building at the end of Third Street which I remember. However, the lean-to building, which I remember was not attached to Nr 1 Third Street but to number 2, as I've just discovered. My early research notes are hand written so instead of wading through them without a 'search engine' I did a new search and found that Nr 1 Third Street was destroyed by fire 31 March 1946, shortly before I lived there! The cause was the local Doctor smoking in bed!!

Here's one that Bob might appreciate more as his mother gets a mention. The Newcastle Journal was a bit quicker in reporting as it had a daily edition while the Morpeth herald only had a weekly.

@Canny lass - Bob & a Mary Mclean say thankyou. This is the comments that Mar made and Bob's reply :-

Thankyou @Canny lass - I'll pass that on, from you, to Bob/👍

Nr 1 Third Street needs a bit of investigation. There was a green, wooden, lean-to building on nr 1 which housed the unlikely combination of a Dr's surgery and a chip shop. The latter was, I believe, the cause of he fire. I know I've done a bit of research on it at some time. I'll have a rummage and see what I come up with.

February 10th 1954. I can just remember it and it was reported in the Morpeth Herald Friday 12th 1954.

It rings a bell, but the bell is cracked! Can vaguely remember being presented with an address slip (quite a memorable name), but the year I simply can't recall. It can't have been before late 1961 unless I was just along for the ride - which happened frequently in the mid 1950's. Some of these rides are quite memorable, and amongst other things I got introduced to the use of "shot-firing cable" and sticky tape as a local substitute for mains extension cable. It was a local fix for there often being only one mains socket in a room, and sometimes none at all: appliances were sometimes patched into the light socket! It was also my first introduction to (lethal!) DC mains supplied directly from the colliery generators. It was possible to get AC/DC radios and TVs in those days, and domestic appliances were rare in any event. Shot firing cable was "dorty"-yellow and solid cored. It was entirely unsuitable for domestic use, unreliable, and - almost needless to say - totally unsafe! Often all you could do was a makeshift repair under the condition that they went out and bought some proper mains cable - which everybody knew wasn't going to happen! Umm... maybe that's why the hoose bornt?!

@Canny lass -Bob Turnbull (Bygone Bedlington FB group) has asked if anyone has any memory of the burnt hoose. So far nobody has has replied with any memories. Des it ring a bell with you?

Am I reading that correctly Mal, 2039 for the parking? The new station will be ready for renovering by then.

Thank you Mal, I'll just take the bus then!

There hasn't been an update because there isn't one!!!!!!!! We are looking at 2025 for the station and potentially 2039 for the parking to be completed!!!!!!!!!!

Who could possibly have guessed this? Further proof - if any were necessary - that it's always best just to get on and do your own thing.

How do you rationalise the fact that despite the Deludocrats earlier siren warnings, the Trumpster was the only POTUS in modern history NOT to start a war? Wars always start through perceived weakness - Sleepy Joe being a prime example. You'll love this article in today's DE: My Labour chums can’t wait for Starmer to win power - here's why they’ll hate every minute

That's what my prediction is based on

That's a close call, Eggy. Biden will likely still be in office until early January, and there's the traditional first phone call. "1. I will be avoiding the first 15 minutes of the start of every BBC news broadcast for at least the next 42 days" Why limit it to 15 minutes and 42 days? The BBC no longer broadcast actual news. "a giant size inflatable Bedlington Terrier will hover" -- some great ideas coming out of this thread already!

@Vic Patterson I see we have two posts on the new rail line - but no updates for 5 months.

Haven't seen any updates posted online for weeks now Vic. I'll see if I can find any updates that are giving the progress = telling the truth. This is a link to the Northumberland County Council Northumberland Line promotion site :- https://www.northumberlandline.uk/

@Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) @Symptoms ...all of those 14 things plus: 1 Mickey Mouse will be the UK's prime minister. He'll need to have a long distance relationship with Minnie because she'll be in the Oval Office multi-tasking with housework, running the country and preparing a womanfesto for the next erec... (sorry FHF again, plus, I must take more water with my whisky) election. 2 Bedlington will receive millions from Mickey's government to prepare Bedlington for the hosting of the next winter olympics. The mascot, a giant size inflatable Bedlington Terrier will hover over the ski-slope, aka Bedlington bank, throughout the duration of the games. 3 The seats in Wetminster will be reupholstered in a high quality, waterproof, black and white striped material. 4 Included in the responsibilities and powers of the Speaker of the House of Commons is the punishment of offenders. Such punishments will now include those of a corporal nature. Wrist-slapping will no longer be curtailed to the verbal variety. Standing in a corner may also be added to the list of punishments allowed. TV-coverage will be so much more fun. 5 Black Rod will be called Red Rod and her knock should be answered by all MPs simultaneously singing a chorus of Mary Hopkin's Knock knock who's there? 6 Yorkshire puddings, having held the monopoly on the name for far too many years, will now be called Northumberland puddings. 7 Parliamentary night sittings will become night standings. That should put a stop to that mullarkey.

The first two lines of Nichi’s article say it all. ” What do undecided women voters want? That’s the question prickling many a Westminster wonk ahead of our July 4 election.” Westminster wonk? Please, somebody, anybody, tell me that’s a spelling mistake and make my day! In this erect… (sorry, must be too much FHF), election the risk is, I believe, minimal. Big Dicky’s tie is a direct no-no! Anybody needing a tie that long to point the way to his er… brain (despite his pet-name) is not going to get many female votes. They are wasting their breath, time and money with their manifestos. What we women need are womanfestos to help us decide and if we women reach Erect… (sorry, it’s that FHF thing again) Election Day, untouched by the main political parties’ attempts to woo us then we have a very efficient and reliable method for making that all important, final decision: Lick the index finger of the right hand, close both eyes, circle the licked finger three times in a clockwise direction at shoulder level, quickly move the finger in a downward direction until contact is made with the voting slip, open both eyes and place a cross at the point covered by the tip of the index finger. Never fails!!