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Agree with all of that, 3G. Credit to Wetherspoons, there is plenty of information on Birkenshaw, Stephenson and Gooch on their walls, as well as info on the ironworks.

I think there are many contenders to that claim; Railways were in operation elsewhere in the UK before Birkenshaw produced the Bedlington Rail, which did revolutionise the railway industry. By the way, why does a site bedlington.co.uk underline the word Bedlington in red whenever I type it!

Maggie, a neighbour has a mate who is a scrap dealer, pm me you address etc and I'll let him know

Someone posted it on a Facebook page. Did you manage to see it?

Ahoy train spotters; The legendary Flying Scotsman is passing through Bedlington today at a scheduled 1.44pm, stopping at Morpeth for a drink! Good opportunity for photo's. I'll probably be at the Swan!

I am absolutely stunned. I didn't know Ian personally but respect his endeavour to succeed in his chosen sport. I know of one member here who will be particularly upset by this very sad news.

Who says the Out campaign had/has the least popular support? Just about everything I've read and heard says the opposite?

Just an update: Archibald Jones, my big lad, took another chunk out of the Rat Bastard population today. Thought Monsta might appreciate that.

Where headstones are concerned the responsibility is always with the legal owner. With those of this age determining such could be difficult.

Canny Lass I'm interested in the headstones also, I'll set aside some time and try and take some pictures.

lol. This is a window hinged from the top; it has two levers, one needs to turn left, the other - of course - right, and then you need to push. I have never seen her do it, but how else do I find it open when she is the only living thing in the house, and outside? Interesting about the knocking on window thing: I'm deaf - almost totally - and all my cats to date have learned the usual 'meow' won't wake me up, but standing on my face will. Feline sign language, I guess.

Not saying owt about purple hats! My older cat has learnt how to open the kitchen window, so she can go and sort out the rat bastard population without bothering me. Given there are two levers that need to be turned in opposite directions, I'm extremely impressed.

Happy birthday young fella!

Aw Canny Lass I like the sand! I can throw it in his eyes! (Only kidding 3G, I would more likely buy you a pint!)

Yes, perhaps ignorance was wrong; arrogance is more apt.

Your ignorance in that last post is utterly astonishing. My 'mates in the pub' are a bunch of intelligent, politically aware professionals from many different walks of life; your blanket dismissal is typical of your superior attitude, and serves little purpose in the discussion. For the record, and this is yet another display of ignorance on your part, you'll find few in Bedlingto in support of Mr Lavery; his core vote is from Ashington. I stand, firmly, by my point: people, in general, have lost interest.

Now this is more like it!

Well, to be honest, I haven't read before my post. I did a straw poll today, in the local: everyone - 100% out of 20 odd canvassed - has lost interest thanks to hearing about it over and over again. It's been killed, stone dead. The turn out on voting day will be meagre.

"It's a life and nation changing event, and deserves a bit more application." I couldn't agree more, but my point still stands; I'm bored to death with it, and there's almost a month to go before we vote. I'm not alone, either; I am now prone to change channels when I see it come up on the news - and, for the sake of clarity, it's not news, it hasn't happened - and, like just about everyone I've spoken to, I don't bother reading about it any more. It's been killed by the media to the point that, when the poll happens, people will be utterly apathetic, and won't bother voting. I'm not saying it's not worthy of our serious consideration, but that its been rammed at us so hard and so much that the general populace has switched off. I haven't even bothered to read any of your threads over the last fortnight, I'm that fed up with the subject. There's plenty else going on in the world.

This whole debate - the Remain or Leave thing - is the worst example of media overkill I can remember. It's got to the point now where I've actually lost interest. I turn on the TV news each morning and it's the same thing, every day. I've heard it all, thanks. Yesterday, I read my paper in the pub opposite a mate doing the same, and we each did the same thing, and skipped all the pages about the EU subject. We've read it all, it's all that's been written about for weeks. If we haven't made our minds up by now, having been force fed both sides of the argument for an eternity, we're a lost cause. I know what I'm voting, and I'm sure others do, too. It's boring now, and if others are displaying the same level of apathy as I am, it's the fault of the media having nothing else to talk about.

Forget that last one, got you, it's a VPN, interesting stuff, I'll try it.

Is this for real, webtrekker? Looks useful! Would this mean I could access the net when I don't have credit on my phone or when I cannot get a public WiFi spot?

""They do not USE GPS for primary navigation or collision avoidance; they only use it in the same manner as a human does." But they do use it, and Volvo seems to think it rather important to the concept: "This technology lets the car know about speed limits and temporary road signs and always selects the quickest, most efficient route."" So, GPS tells it how to get to where it is meant to go. How else could it know? Surely, if you tale away the GPS system, it can't navigate correctly? Or am I missing something here? Volvo, see above, says it uses GPS to select the route? ** I googled 'ford autonomous cars' - well actually I googled autonomus cats by accident and it says theirs uses a laser system (LIDAR?) and 3D maps.

Frank, mine would be called. " Smart vehicles don't limit information, choice, and available routings, they greatly expand them all." But what people need, day in, day out, is being taken from point A to point B in x minutes, in order to get to work/school/the shops when desired. I can't see an expensive, capacity-limited car taking the place of a bus any time soon (and by that I mean in my lifetime). I agree with the Uber points, but they don't really apply to buses, do they? Bus companies do tell you what is going on, and also offer you positional information (lovely phrase); I have an app on my phone that tracks buses, in real time, so I can leave the house at precisely the moment the bus reaches Guidepost roundabout and be at the stop within half a minute of it arriving to pick me up. It allows me, to my great relief, to see when a bus is late (or early) and how so, also. It is reliable and free. I guess the same would be true of the driveless cars, but I still can't see the advantage of, in the example of the X22, 18 cars on the road instead of one bus.

They do need GPS, to determine where they are at any given point on a journey. The latter part of your sentence is also true; the autonomous vehicle will find it hard to cope with cars being driven by people, who are of course largely stupid and prone to being rather lax and far from uniform in their driving habits. The concept of autonomous city cars, taking us from place to place without us having to worry about driving, is an interesting one, but how is it an improvement on a 72 seat vehicle running the same predetermined route three times every hour? Or, in the case of trains, potentially many, many more.