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[Maggie/915]

I invite anyone NCC or the Old Wansbeck District Council to explain what has happened in Bedlington.

Where has money gone?

(Golf Club and Tesco's first)

Then all our Taxes.

What money has been used for Bedlington ?

No waffle and not just general maintenance issues.

Serious issues have been raised on this Forum and no one has any answers.

All other towns in the area have leisure facilities old and new.

We have a Community Centre .

We have Gallagher Park but these facilities do little to help

[Symptoms]

Call the Daily Mail ... they love stories about corruption in local government - especially if the labour Party is involved.  As the General Election is due they're more likely to be interested in running a 'stiffing the Left' story.

 

Maggs, a tip - block your mobile 'number display' or use a public phone box when contacting the press.

[Maggie/915]

Thanks Symptoms but I am a simple soul who feels there must be answers.

Just not sure how easy it is to find them.

If a West Bedlington Councillor cannot get answers who can!

No one gains from Bedlington being shown in a bad light.

I do believe in our justice system and even our democracy.

[Maggie/915]

21 million for an Ashington Leisure centre.

Ok one million from Sports something or other.

The numbers are extraordinary.

Why Why Why!

I am so confused.

[Maggie/915]

Just as well I am not holding my breath for an answer..

Very very sad

Bedlington and The Shire is so important to us all.

So many opportunities lost.

It seems sad that our town has been 'let down'.

I remember a Bedlington Forum meeting where one of our elected leaders insisted on telling us how brilliant The Miners Picnic was.

Not in Bedlington but in Ashington at Woodhorn!

I am not against Ashington but I do remember the picnic days here in Bedlington.

[pilgrim]

Woodhorn has been promoted over and above many other things for so long - lottery funding etc and the archives being put there. fair enough to make something out of a derelict site and the archives are an incredibly useful asset - but I suspect it was partly because they needed to justify the use of the buildings etc. although I am perplexed as to why they ploughed money into yet another industrial park aside the spine road before the hospital 'to create employment and retrain skilled workers' - (why did they need retraining if they were skilled ??) when most of the units nearby are empty!!

The Bedlington picnic was the big event - I seem to think (and most likely wrong) that it was one of the big national events (and I don't mean politically) as the showmen used to turn up as one of their main stops in the north,  and then was it the Durham event and then the town moor or the other way round??

Bedlington was always the best location due it being unique in having such massively wide high street.

(I have a particular problem at the moment with the council as my mother is - shall we say possibly terminal - at 86 after a heart op and a stroke and the council seem to have not only sold one of her grave plots and buried someone else there -- (she bought 3 when my gran died) but the council have failed to respond to any of my correspondence since I raised the issue in June last year. I think the national press is the next step - particularly on the back of the debacle at the Berwick cemetery (sorry if that was a rant)

There are huge amounts of land available in Bedlington for development without impacting on the environment and the population has changed vastly over the decades - there is a skilled young base of people with ability that have to commute to work - working locally is the way the council should look to - and it is very 'green' - less strain on the transport infrastructure (moor farm isn't gridlocked?? nor is the A1 after Gosforth in the mornings?)