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Hayley Orange Made me smile yesterday well done xx Norma Agnew Think it’s great thank you whoever does it Irene Holland Whoever started this tradition please keep it up it’s lovely🙂 Ellenor Owen Lovely thought at Xmas & now our royal wedding xx Lynne Beal Love seeing this 😄 Jan Appleby Fantastic thank you whoever you are for doing this Paul Dimmick mint Eileen Tyers Great thank you whoever you are doing this xx Vivienne Brady Brilliant x Jean Hale It cheers people up when they see it great 🙂xx Paul Routledge Brilliant 😊 drove past it yesterday n it made me smile Kate Maughan It looks great xx Sharon Kirtley Love this. makes me smile thanks + 1 query Roger Neilson Puzzled as to why it was done this weekend... I wonder if it was an organised bus trip from Seghill or just Bedlington reidents Manage

And some people would still whinge there were too many houses and not enough services. Could Amazon & Sports direct cope with that number online. It's a pity the councils couldn't have a production line like in Brave New World and flick the switch to produce more doctors etc. But I would still be singing and dancing in the rain - doo be do do, doobe doobe do do, doo be do do, doobe doobe do do, doo be do do, doobe doobe do do

In an ideal world: we'd all live forever, and the Earth's population would now be approaching one hundred billion. Therefore.. oh!

I didn’t think house prices in Bedlington were so very different to Blyth, Ashington or Cramlington so I had a quick look at Zoopla this morning. In the past year prices have risen in Bedlington by 3.96%. That’s a good bit better than Ashington prices which have shot up by 5.53%. On the other hand, prices in Cramlington and Blyth have gone downmarginally by 0.48% and 0,63%. That still leaves actual house prices with only marginal differences. The average prices paid during the past year for houses are: Bedlington – £134,942 Cramlington - £140,291 Blyth - £129,558 Ashington - £115,231 Of course, they are not all new-builds. But first time house buyers, if they have any sense, usually cut their coat according to their cloth and work their way up from an anorak to a mink. Looking only at properties on sale in Bedlington this year I can see several that are well below market value: Queens Road - £62,000 Stirling Drive £47,500 Millbank Crescent £50,000 Stead Lane £90,000 Roslin Park £82.500 And for those with a higher income: The Wynding £148,000 Octavia Close £150,000 Bonchester Close £127,000