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Election Special!

By threegee, in News,

To quote a little of what was said:
So there you have it! We've agreed that the political dinosaurs who refuse to engage other than under strictly controlled conditions have no right to gag "the new politics". We've an amazing spread of views across our membership, and there's a matching tolerance to the rights of others to express their opposing views.
Maybe the best advice to members is to consider what the person you give your vote to is going to do with it after they've safely pocketed it? Are they going to go AWOL until the next election, or are you going to be able to put searching questions to them afterwards, and get a prompt explanation of why they are doing what they are doing in your name?
If there's one thing that's generally agreed it's that our Town has been badly served by "party hacks" of all parties. The "new accountability" is everywhere these days, so perhaps it's not a big ask that Bedlington gets its rightful share! â– 
John White
Produced and edited by Synergy presenter John White and based on a script by the Sixtownships community history group, the re-enactment was recorded by staff and students of Morpeth's King Edward V1 School.
The play is amongst a dozen of John's Drivetime show items in the Audio Archive
Said John: "We plan to build up the audio archive so that people in the area who may have missed local items when they were first aired will now have the opportunity of listening to them. And as we're coming up to the hundredth anniversary of such an infamous event in Bedlington's history, we felt it just had to be included as part of the archive."
Amongst other items that are now available on the site is John's transatlantic interview with expat author Paul Mann whose book "The Leek Club" describes his formative years growing up in Bedlington.
Synergy organiser South Northumberland Radio Group is applying to Ofcom for a second 28-day licence to broadcast on FM and simultaneously on-line later this year.

Listen Now
Keith Scantlebury
The reputation that Burnside has had over the last decade or two has not been the best, to say the least. Things have improved significantly over the last 12 months or so and it is our intention to build on that and make it an estate that people wont be ashamed to admit to living on.




There are many good people living on this estate and they have had to suffer the stigma of living on Burnside because of the way a certain few chose to lead their lives by disrespecting their neighbours and environment and, in doing so, tarring everyone on the estate with the same brush, things can only change for the better.
BURNSIDE ESTATE RESIDENTS GROUP
---- neighbours pulling together ----
NewsQueen

Synergy Makes Expansion Easy

By NewsQueen, in News,

Keith Fitzsimmons, the co-owner of Synergy, first approached Stelios in December 2010 shortly after the launch of easyGym, with a view to opening physiotherapy clinics at the easyGym sites as a complementary service. More than 18 months later the CEO of easyGym, Paul Lorimer-Wing confirmed that he wanted Synergy to be its Physiotherapy partner.
Keith, who has so far invested £90,000 in the easyGym openings, said: "I launched Synergy in 1999 and opened the Bedlington clinic in 2002. Since then I have expanded the business, opening in Carlisle and in Gosforth, with a total of seven physiotherapists and two administration staff "“ so we are a successful business. But I saw this as a great opportunity. EasyGym has been a pleasure to work with and is eventually looking at opening 50 sites across the UK "“ so this is an extremely exciting time for us."
Synergy is fitting out the clinics - which are a minimum of 160 sq ft and each employ at least of two physios "“ with top quality furniture and state of the art equipment.
Keith has also invested in a bespoke online booking system, developed by Newcastle based web developer Jump, that allows real time booking, giving greater choice to patients and saving Synergy time in administration.
He said: "The clinics at EasyGym sites are open seven days and longer hours than normal physio clinics are "“ from as early as 6.30am in some places "“ so therefore we needed a realtime booking system that enabled patients to make their appointments online, and pay for them at the same time.
"We are also looking at expanding the services offered at all of the sites to incorporate sports nutritionists, podiatrists, and even sports doctors."
Paul Lorimer-Wing from EasyGym said: "When Synergy approached us we saw a great opportunity to develop complementary services at EasyGym sites. Keith has done a great job in developing those services and opening well equipped clinics. We look forward to a long and fruitful partnership."
Synergy, which won the Rio Tinto Business of the Year award in 2008, has also recently been asked to provide physiotherapy services to the stars of the X Factor during some parts of their UK-wide tour, including the recent shows at the Newcastle arena.
Brett
Bedlington.co.uk has joined the digital era and has it's very own Facebook page which will allow people to keep up to date with local news and stories directly from their news feed.
http://www.facebook.com/Bedlingtoncouk

Bedlington.co.uk also has a twitter feed which people can follow for events, news, articles relating to the local area.
https://twitter.com/Bedlingtoncouk

John White
South Northumberland Radio Group's campaign to raise funds for its second FM and simultaneous on-line broadcast has, this month, received two boosts: £500 from Blyth Town Council's Community Chest fund and a Big Lottery Fund Awards for All grant offer of £6251.
This funding adds to £5250 in recent grants and donations from West Bedlington Town Council, the Co-op Community Fund, the Newcastle-based Sir James Knott Trust and an anonymous overseas well-wisher.
The group's chairman, Colin Heathcote said: "We're absolutely delighted that our fund raising efforts have paid off and that we can go ahead with another broadcast.
"Apart from the funding, we have had tremendous support for our project to provide a genuinely accessible community radio service from people and organisations throughout our broadcast area of south east Northumberland.
"Amongst the many letters and messages received are those from several parish and town councils in the area, the local MPs, Northumberland County Council, Alan Shearer, the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, the Salvation Army, Samaritans, Wansbeck CVS, Age UK, Bedlington Forum, Friends of Gallagher Park, British Red Cross, Bedlingtonshire Chamber of Trade and Sir John Hall who is currently chairing a committee which aims to breathe new life into Ashington town centre."
He added: "Our broadcast in March last year attracted nearly 100 studio guests and was well received in the community. The second broadcast will enable us to build on that success and give volunteers a chance to further hone their broadcasting skills as we await Ofcom's five-year licence application decision."
John White

Synergy FM 6k Lottery Grant

By John White, in News,

Dear All.
Fantastic news just in today:
The Big Lottery Fund has given us a grant of £6251
We applied for this money to finance another 28 day fm broadcast, similar to the one back in March last year.
So please watch this space for further details...
SYNERGY is about to return!
John White

Synergy's £4000 Boost

By John White, in News,

The money will help pay for Synergy's proposed second 28-day broadcasting licences.
The Bedlington-based station has received £1000 from the Co-op's Community Fund and £3000 from the Sir James Knott Trust of Newcastle.
The organisation behind the broadcasting project is the South Northumberland Radio Group which organised the successful four weeks of live programming "“ which included contributions from numerous community groups - on air for listeners in south east Northumberland in March 2012.
Its chairman Colin Heathcote said: "Receiving the two grants just before Christmas was a real tonic. Fund-raising in the current difficult financial climate is very hard with so many voluntary groups and charities chasing an ever-diminishing pot of money.
"We have built a tremendous support base which is reflected by the wide variety of local and regional funders, and listeners here and overseas, who believe in what we are trying to achieve: a genuinely accessible community radio station that will provide the type of broadcasting service the area's residents deserve."
He added: "We look forward to adding to our funding total in 2013 when we hope to achieve not only a second successful Ofcom-approved restricted service licence broadcast on FM and on-line, but also progress on plans for a five-year full-time licence."
Malcolm Robinson

Gallagher Park

By Malcolm Robinson, in News,

Another bit of good news is the SITA funding has come through too and we will soon see improvements and enhancements in the Park.
Journal report here.
The Development Trust has also done another You Tube video depicting the story of the vote. (Updated video!)

Malcolm Robinson
For us in the South East our workshop will be on at Choppington Welfare on the 30th January in the Jamieson Room.
Light refreshments will be served at 6.00pm and the workshop will start at 6.30pm.
Anyone interested in attending please phone Mike Bird in Democratic Services on 01670 622616 or e-mail demserv.ar@northumberland.gov.uk so numbers can be confirmed.


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