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Got to say that, I agree with Elon Musk on the two-tier policing comments. Not many weeks ago, there was video on YouTube of people in full garb parading the flags of Hamas (a proscribed terrorist organisation) past the beaming faces of met police officers. Astonishment was expressed that zero action was being taken - others have their own examples of police inaction. Now we are told that terrorism laws are being invoked against ordinary UK citizens. Mark Rowley, however, dismisses any suggestion that different standards are applied to different groups out of hand. That simply doesn't wash - but we can expect this, as Rowley is simply a puppet of a government that is astonishingly rapidly out of its depth. Starmer could dampen all the protests by simply coming out and making a statement that his government recognises that there is a major problem, but that he needs a few months grace to tackle it. The present Labour government was elected by barely 20% of the electorate, so he has zero mandate for any radical measures, let alone the Draconian misuse of laws designed to mitigate external threats. When you have the confidence of so little of the citizenry, as the first priority, you really should be listening to what the people who refused to vote for you have to say, and make bold efforts to gain confidence. Starmer is doing the exact opposite of this, and it won't end well!

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Hi Symptoms I remember those days at the Mayfair my first Band was Family we used to get the Morpeth train back and then walk back to my mothers house arriving at about six am were my mother would rustle up some breakfast for the lads, saw many good bands at the Mayfair before I left Bedlington in October 1973 to go and live in London. Jazz is not dead it just smells a bit funny. FZ Thanks for the memory. Malcolm G Allan.

Thanks Alan for your information as I now have lived in Glastonbury for 35 years and it's a bit of a long shot if anybody was on the Bedlington.uk page in all reality just want to see who is still alive and what they have done in their lifetime as we all must be in our seventies now, Westridge school days seem like a lifetime away as it's 57 years ago or there about since those days. Hope your well Alan as well as all the good Bedlington citizens just let the good times roll. Yours in the Spirit of Co-operation. Malcolm G Allan.

I noticed the post office location behind the people when did it move further up the street? The pram! the transport of the day, we have seen them full of bairns, yes top and tail or full of groceries, or a combination of both, even seen a bag of coal but not at the same time as the bairn. Parked at the front door, hat, mitts and harness on while mom got her housework done! different era. Did anyone see a dad push a pram in those days? (no prams in the club I suppose)

I was guessing at the 1940's based on the ciggi machine and that pram. Googled the ciggi vending machine history but didn't find anything to put a specific period/decade they were introduced into the UK - gave up after 30 mins I must have used the ciggi vending machines in the 1960's but preferred to visit the local Co-op, at the Oval shops, and get 10 JC, cos that's what me mam smoked and the bloke in the Co-op assumed I was just getting them for her. Don't have any photos from the 1940's of me, or my two older brothers, in a pram so no idea what we spent our first years in. As the three of us were born in consecutive years and I can't imagine my family having a twin pram etc I do wonder how me mam got to the shops! There again me grannie had nine children, between 1920 & 1937, so I would guess they had to learn to walk early and the youngest one had the pram. Or would they 'top-and tail' in an old pram?