What happens to Bedlington now? - ghost town looming - perhaps it's time to sell up and move. It's sad news for the employees, but, is there an opportunity there? If there was enough interest could a local consortium (peoples local coop) not take it over and run it for the people of Bedlington. It could still be profit driven and promises could be kept unlike promises made by Tesco. It could take Bedlington back to the days of Milne's department store and that brought people in from other towns. Tesco gone, end of Bedlington, never.