Historical Factoids 22:

[Mal]

In my ‘historical factoids’ series, I mentioned being told Bedlington doesn’t warrant any major investment.  I’ve been trying to figure out where I saw that being justified and I’ve just been reminded of this beauty!

So a deep dive and analysis into Northumberland High Streets up and down the County and we see this as an assessment for Bedlington.

This was 2011 and while times have changed, indeed high streets up and down the country have changed dramatically; we can see one of the things being used to justify our continued lack of investment from one administration after another over the years.

I’ll leave readers to draw their own conclusions………

 

 

[Canny lass]

Thank you Malcolm for this interesting series of 'factoids'. It's been an eye-opener learning how the well-oiled wheels of local politics function, don't function and even grind to a stand still on occasions. This sort of transparency, is something that is invaluable. Keep up the good work!

[Mal]

At a recent meeting I was asking about current business health in Northumberland and was directed to a certain report.  I had to point out that was done in 2011 and there is very little commonality between businesses then and now! 

It’s staggering sometimes!