Andy Millne

Anybody know why the police were on foot on the front street with a few cars patrolling? I was approached as apparantly I matched the description of somebody they were looking for. They wouldn't give me any info. Are Bedlington's criminal element carrying 10 week old puppies with them on their escapades as a disguise to throw the police off the scent? I don't see how I possibly could have looked like I'd just been engaging in criminal activity. Unless of course somebody is missing a puppy. The officer was very polite just seemed like an odd choice of person to stop that's all.

If it's the one I'm thinking of it's now a hairdressers, unless it was the little shop around the corner which is empty.

The next Bedlington Forum meeting will be held in the Youth Room of the community centre on Thursday 10th December at 6:30pm Meeting to include: Update on the bid for funding to cover the cost of a Feasibility Study for a community and sport facility in Bedlington.What's on in the Market Place in the run up to Xmas. Progress at the Market Place.Planning hearing.Cycleway to Cramlington.Red Lion Pub, planning application. Minutes of previous meeting are attached Forum Minutes April 16th 2009.doc

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Can I close this now?

OK it's all sorted. No expensive public enquiries no obscene amounts spent on consultancy I've done all the hard work. Here it is Bedlington's new town centre... The social club can move into the community centre.

And while we're at it council offices might as well go as well

I've got a vision! Get rid of the Social Club and The Sun and develop the land from the old school up to the community centre. We've got too many pubs as it is and Elliotts isn't exactly helping the image of the town at the moment. If ever there was a case for some compulsory purchase orders....

Apparantly the community centre is being sold off by NCC. I think it could be better run by a private company but I can't imagine any private owner that takes it on using it for that purpose.

Yep chicken and egg problem. Finding some other non retail things to pull people into the town centre is the answer.

Contracts have been exchanged (not signed) on the gap site so I guess the work is still on. Sooner they get the fancy that facade cleaned up the better as well.

Is it Windows 7 Final or RC? I'm running an RC build and "my" secondary display has a similar problem. Pretty sure it's the monitor though here.

It rather does look that way doesn't it. The current generation of shoppers are attracted to big high street names and tempting them in to Bedlington would be very difficult at the minute. I still think the spirit of enterprise in the town is very strong though and the amount of people running small businesses from home is staggering. Now if only we could have a central location for them to all get together and promote to a wider audience we might still be able to keep some of that hard earned in the local economy... oh wait hang on!

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Just thought I'd give you all some insight into what is currently being worked on for the town domains and ask for some feedback at the same time. General Integration The member bar that appears in the top right will be available through the entire site not just the community features. Site Pages Firstly, the news pages and static pages (Town Info etc.) will be getting a major overhaul and I'll be making it a lot easier to submit new content and also edit existing pages in a similar vein to wikipedia (The site is about collaboration after all). Article comments will work in a very similar way to posting in the forums and post counts will carry across. Also you will be able to rate articles. The homepage sidebar will be reworked to better present the notifications of latest calendar, gallery, classified entries etc. They are a bit all over the place at the moment. I may even see if I can make it so people can show/hide these widgets on an one-by-one basis. Classifieds and Business Directory Both will be getting integration improvements. Classifieds will also be syndicated between the Morpeth and Bedlington domains. The Business Directory will be getting search, category and mapping support. Not only that it is going to be listed as "Shopping" in the menu and will feature more than a bland directory, it will feature local shopping tips and all traders will be able to post special offers to appear alongside. Local Traders get in touch for ways we can help you! Issue Tracker The issue tracker will also be getting mapping support and private issues e.g. Submit a report to the relevant person without it being publically viewable. I'm debating adding anonymous submissions so they can still be tracked publicly but the original poster is kept anonymous. Galleries Too many to list but a better slideshow, reputation system carried to comments, Image rotation, Restrict galleries to your friends list and image notes are some of the highlights. Search The current search is pap and relies on people knowing advanced search techniques such as enclosing a phrase in "" to match the whole phrase or using -word to exclude words or +word to require them. This will become a lot easier. That's about all I can think of at the moment but if you've got any suggestions let me know.

The gap site and the law courts would have been the obvious choice.

It's technically possible yes, but this is no different to any other email provider. It's a good point though I'll see if I can work in some one way encryption based on users passwords so I can't. Don't Read past here if you get easily bored by technical info Just so you know there is currently no way for admins here to read users passwords which is why when people forget we can't just tell them what it is. They need to revalidate by requesting a new generated one that is sent to their email address. The password encryption works by taking the password and putting it through some non reversible wizardry that results in a seemingly random phrase. so... "mysecretpassword" gets turned into "dsfjsd7fsdbf8r7g545b456bhjv5t45c64bsdklmasx9" this only works one way so what we store on the server is the gobbledeygook version when you come to login and type your password in then we put what you entered through the wizardry and compare the result to what's on the server, if they match you're logged in, the password you enter is never stored. So when people ask what's my password the only thing we can give them is "dsfjsd7fsdbf8r7g545b456bhjv5t45c64bsdklmasx9" which wouldn't work. So long story short. I can try and do the same thing with email contents.

Things are moving on nicely with the email features. Should have something up by the new year (fingers crossed).

There isn't one

Here you go. Planning Base-Layout1.pdf BMX track-Layout1.pdf

Yeah when I remember where I put them, stand by!

No I get the saw out.

I usually get it from CPL at Sleekburn too but I've never heard of Straughan. If anybody knows if they're still around then that might be better for me. I'm running out of wood so will probably need some shortly.

I've sent you some info regarding some events you could get involved in and who you should contact.