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Are you searching for a member of your family? New ITV series could help. Is there someone important missing in your family – someone you'd love to be reunited with? Perhaps you are adopted and long to find your birth family, or maybe you'd love to meet the father you've never known? The makers of the highly acclaimed BBC family history series 'Who Do You Think You Are?' might be able to help find them for you. In a heart warming new television series for ITV, Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell are reuniting long lost relatives who have been affected by adoption or family separation. They have already successfully reunited sons and daughters with their fathers, twin sisters adopted into different families, and birth mothers with the children they gave up for adoption years ago. They're in a position to help reunite more families and wanted to offer their help and expertise to any Bedlington families who might be interested. If you would like to get in touch and tell them about the search for your relative, go to http://www.walltowall.co.uk/longlostfamily.aspx , fill in your details and they'll get straight back to you.

Anyone noticed what the Eurocrats have done……….passed a bill for a 6.9% budget increase! And here's me thinking 'we are all in this together' in every sense of the wording, not! These people are space cadets and should be blasted into space! At a time of austerity with just about every national government trimming budgets these guys have upped theirs? As for the UK increased contribution the figures I have heard seem to suggest an increase of around £5-6 billion. Coupled with a similar amount for an increase in foreign aid, that equates to the amount the coalition have just chopped out of council budgets this year as an extra measure of savings, (£10b) that's before the spending review stuff takes hold. That alone look to be going to cost NCC around £50M+ and if we then perm in the £10m extra hit they took and their savings already this year of about £15M+ we can see we are heading up to £100M local cut in 2 years. That is a massive hit for an area which has almost 50% employment in the public sector! While this is going on what has been happening to our rates bills, ah yes they haven't been cut in fact quite the opposite! So we can expect even less of a service but pay even more in, there is a hell of a black hole somewhere!

So an accountant eh! No personal gain :dribble: That's got to be a first You should hang your head in shame

Hi, I hope this class photo has attached OK. Taken 1950's. Does any one know the names ?