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HPW I usually use my email, then cut and paste it, then delete when done. If I don't get finished it goes into drafts! Piece of cake!

This weeks NPL was interesting. Easy to understand was Malcolm Robinsons letter However page 3 on Capital Spending was not so easy. Capital Spending, cuts and a tax hike was the headline. The article tells us that there are to be £6 million revenue cuts and £380 million spent on capital projects in 2017/18 . Does this mean these huge sums and more are the spending in 2016/17. They go on to tell us that there is £150 million earmark for third party loans to the likes of Arch. There is also funding for new sport and leisure facilities at Druridge Bay. 3G pitch for Alnwick Juniors. Alnwick Playhouse into a community hub. Then new leisure centres at Blyth Morpeth Ponteland and Berwick. Significant resources are set aside for school reorganisation. Finally money to support the reopening of the Ashington Blyth and Tyne railway. To me the figures for cuts and then spending just do not add up. Bedlington with no Arch action seems very very low on any priority list. A friend at the council meeting in Morpeth thought she heard a figure of £38,000 for the posters of the council leader and others! Surely this must be wrong.

Me too, Symptoms - not that I would ever dream of writing anything long!

I too have been caught by the Forum's word thief in the distant past. If I intend to write anything long here now I create it in Word (or any free text editor will do) then copy & paste it to here; if anything goes wrong here then the original is safe in the text editor or has been saved elsewhere. Mind, I tend not to write reams any more so just work 'live and dirty' here and run the risk (a bit like unsafe sex ... ).

That's happened to me a few times HPW (lost the post before getting it posted). If you start writing again in the reply box it (what you'd already written) usually comes back.