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What's your take on this Mr Lavery? We really need to know!

Whilst looking into the history of football in Bedlington over the years I have discovered that Bedlington United were a formidable team at the start of the 20th. Century. They actually played in the top local League (The North Eastern League) against the Reserve team from Newcastle, Sunderland, Middlesborough, etc. Reports state that their home ground was at Hollymount, but on checking old maps it's difficult to see exactly where. However, John Reed has confirmed that the pitch was just off Front Street East, where Hollymount Square was eventually built. If you look at the 2 attached Maps (1 from 1920, the other from 1938) you will see on both that there is a football ground down Church Lane. Does anyone know anything about this ground and who might have played there. You can clearly see the new housing developments of Haig/Beaty Road and Millfield on the 1938 map (and not on the 1920 map). I'd appreciate anyone asking their older relatives if they can throw any light on this query regards this Church Lane football ground.

I have a dog and it barks itself -- even when I don't want it to - i'm thinking there are too many mad dogs in the world already. Them jihadists are safe when asleep so tread lightly and don't wake them. oh and 13 yrs wi a certain regiment and then many yrs doing other things might help with my survival. funny how I have not felt threatened even after all the dire warnings on here and in the populist press. I recall a chant of 'up the hammas' but I think that was possibly one of them football things??

This isn't a real country by Anglo Saxon standards, and is still very regionalised. It's what made it a push over for the EU. Berlusconi has his areas of support in the center of politics. The Northern League are far to the right of him and they have their geographic areas. You would certainly call the Northern League right wing extremists. My point is that all major parties are now advocating policies which you would label extremist. I think your supposed "right wing" views are international capitalist, and you'd have been a Tony Blair supporter in the times before he was totally discredited in the eyes of practically all UK voters. Tell me this isn't true? I'd be interested to hear your take on Corbyn when you've a moment.

Excuse me but you've told us all quite clearly in the past that you hold left wing views, and are proud of this! Good use of the old Ad Hominem there Merc! Berlusconi is reflecting the views of most people - it's how he regularly gets elected. The bent EU compliant judiciary have tried to disqualify him, but he keeps on coming back as he represents the views of the majority in a large part of the country. Upstart and left wing Five Star will get most of the votes in the South, and they need to adopt exactly the same tone to get a majority. There are right wing extremist parties but they won't get near government. You are getting very agitated and irrational as the world increasing fails to conform with your ideas of how things must be. I like the "even in Italy!" Try Israel: Israel to Deport 40,000 Illegal Immigrants

Always amusing how leftie keyboard warriors urge people who are in touch with the real world to get out into it. This is what "ordinary people" here think: Social bomb ready to explode’ Berlusconi pledges to deport 600,000 illegal immigrants And... before you tell us it's the right wing extremist Daily Express, this is the sanitised version of what you'll find in the Italian press! Italy is far from alone, and even the brain dead conformist Germans have had enough. Regarding the "some of different persuasions": left wing Five Star is promising more or less the same, so it's now beyond simple left right politics here.

If you are referring to slavery, we pioneered the abolition of that - a practice which had gone on for thousands of years before we brought the forces off Empire to bear on it. But you lefties only wish to highlight the bad of Empire (and remove it from historical context) and never the overwhelming good. Your historical arguments have just been blown out of the water, and you still refuse to address the here and now! I ask you once more: how many immigrants are enough?

The "somehow" is evident if you read the earlier posts. There are two dimensions to this unprecedented mass immigration and the left loves to muddy the waters by conflating them. Though, at the end of the day, the both represent an existential threat to our country and to Europe as a whole. My views ar anything but radical, though representing moderate views like mine as radical and extremist is the way the left furthers its own brand of extremism. People aren't quite as stupid as they think, though decades of infiltration into the media and education system is going to be a hard one to tackle.