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Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995 Someone needs to point this out to the Great Thought Lords at the Beeb. Their excuse for stifling all debate is that it has been settled! Maybe there's another IPCC we haven't been told about? Thought: If there was an IPSC (International Panel for Santa Claus), would it have proving Santa Claus was a fiction on its agenda?

It can't be North Terrace because if you look at the shadows they are coming from the South toward the back-doors. And it isn't Shiney Row either (which I initially thought it was) for exactly the same reason. The only one of the long rows with the backs facing that way would be Doctor Terrace. Also if you look right down at the end you can see a large building on the other side of the Glebe Road. That would be the stores (Moores Stores?). An old map would confirm that alignment. I know for a fact that the numbers on Shiney ran from low nearest the Dr Pit, to high at the Glebe Road end. Assuming this was true for all three of the major rows, then this has to be the lower numbers. Lets guess at the teens for now, though it could conceivably be single figures. 1951 says Cympil. Time of day looks about noon. It would be possible to pin that down to about 15 minutes, and have a pretty good stab at the month too.

Thing is this isn't a recession of the type any of us has been through. Those are a bit painful, but things inevitably bounce back in a year or two or three. It's actually a 21st century style depression. We got in this mess through constantly failing to face up to the consequences of overspending. This doesn't need explaining to anyone who has run a real business or even balanced a household budget. But when you attempt to write your own rules, as GB has (even though we've never been favoured with a set-in-stone explanation as to what those five rules actually are) and know no real restraints, then the result is inevitable. More inevitable than the final result of the MPs determining their own allowable expenses. Blunder one was spend-spend-spend through boom; blunder two was simply refusing to recognise it was a boom and extending "the economic cycle" to whatever fitted the convenience of the day. Blunder three was interventionism - remember that of-no-account building society with incompetent management that should have been allowed to fail. Rescuing NR sent all the wrong messages to the big boys. A huge mistake to throw tax payers money at it. And worse: Darling still pats himself on the back that it was the right thing to do! You're right about "neo liberal style economics". The solution to the failure of regulation is apparently more regulation. No mention that the regulation which failed was at heart the self-regulation of the politicians themselves. And the solution to being massively over-borrowed is more borrowing: http://news.bbc.co.u...ess/8513650.stm Today the solution to unemployment is less employment - I though I must have misheard that on the BBC, but no a 21 hour week is being seriously advocated by one quango or another! As Ferguson has pointed out roaring inflation is now locked in to the system. When it does break out you'd better not be on a fixed income, or indeed live in a community that is near dependant on fixed government handouts. There's a cruel symmetry built into this, in that many of those who put this bunch of self-serving incompetents into power are going to be the hardest hit. Who will they blame? Well, certainly not themselves!

Heavyweight economist Prof. Niall Ferguson has just published an article in the FT titled A Greek crisis is coming to America - the title of which might say it all, except that the article goes on to conclude: I'm convinced that his lecture last year in Westminster Hall has a something to do with the unprecedented numbers of MP's who are standing down at the election. In his Westminster lecture he called the present state of affairs "a repressed depression". An end to the recession, says Mr Darling! To borrow the famous words of W.C.: "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

Of course we are all completely wrong on this - someone who was born there in 1955 has just mentioned the place on another thread in this section. http://www.bedlingto...654-barrington/ For my part the annoying thing is that I've probably been called out to Double Row on a repair job in the dim and distant past, and on more than one occasion! Certainly the name rang a bell; unfortunately no one was in at the time. BTW this one I've just spotted in Cympil's gallery really captures the spirit of almost 60 years ago in the rows. If it were a painting it would likely be a masterpiece! Where's the one of the free coal deliveries spilling over half the road though? http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/gallery/image/351-ice-cream-man-jack-antoniho-dr-pit-1951/

Sounds like two must-be-there events for anyone with a decent camera, and who fancies themselves as a photographer Owen! Look forward to seeing the resulting pictures. Did anyone put these on the town calendar?

http://news.bbc.co.u...ogy/8512263.stm This sort of thing has to be the way forward, rather than pay the Rupert Murdochs huge sums that they don't need, and that aren't at all justified by the content. http://vimeo.com/9352664 I will be at the front of the queue to tip in a few quid a month. And if bedlington.co.uk were to have a flattr button I'd be clicking on it once a month to ensure Andy keeps up the good work. What's more, if or when Bedlington has a radio station and they ask for support they'd get a regular click too! Bring it on payitbay.com! 10% off the top is a bit much - almost as bad as the 11% odd that Amazon steal from small sellers. So I'd hope that when flattr gets over the initial hurdles it would reduce to something below 5%. But they've got the barrier of the banks creaming off their cut too, so one has to be realistic. BTW Andy is very busy at the moment coding a new project that we are going to see here for sure. This is looking so good that he's already attracted a few voluntary donations from other parts of the globe. It wouldn't surprise me if code originally planned just for this website is deployed on thousands of other websites worldwide. There are some brilliant and enterprising people in our small town, as indeed there have been throughout history.

There's a law against that sort of thing - even if you own it. Local "builders" please note! I'd buy the old infants school from the developer and put up a large monument to the people who don't want to see any change for the better in the town. The inscription might read: "Dedicated to those Bedlingtonians who would rather remain in the 20th century than make a few small compromises and move into the 21st."

It's a good thing that the euro is getting a bit of a bashing. Cheaper holidays, and it gives Gordo something to point to when he, and the grey-haired Edinburgh solicitor who pretends he knows something about economics, (falsely) claim that it's a global problem. Countries that go bankrupt because they hold Olympic Games they can't afford deserve all they get. They're only slightly less dumb than countries that are already bankrupt, and yet still intend to hold Olympic Games they can't afford!

Not a Bedlington Estate Agent, but the funniest thing I've seen for years! http://secretestateagent.blogspot.com/ BTW interesting that not a single Bedlington Estate Agent has had the guts to post an "I'm not like that - our firm gives real service" message. And yes, they have read this thread; at least the less dozy ones! Keep your head down seems to be the best policy then? Or maybe not? When the entire show is replaced by sellers and buyers doing their own thing on the Internet for pennies rather than paying thousands of pounds of unearned commissions, you'll not need to ask the question why. They'll have put themselves out of business!

Silly burka!

Close, but isn't where the Police HQ is almost slap on the Dr Pit head, or at least just a tiny bit South of it? The 'raas' were West and North of this. The most prominent one (nearest the Front Street) was Shiney Row, shown here on the right of Cympil's gallery photo: If you look at the row on the left of this picture (Doctor Terrace) there were some shorter rows running at about ninety degrees way over at the back there. One of them, as I remember, was New South Row. Why it was called this I could never fathom as it wasn't South of anything I could see. Anyway, my guess is that Double Row was 'ower there'. These other rows were the first to see the bulldozer, and I don't think they had the renovation money spent on them the more prominent ones in the foreground had. Waiting to be corrected on any of this! Hey, start a gallery, and get those pictures up there for posterity! Need any help with this then just ask any of the Mods or Admins.

This is so true. One day there'll be a musical: T. Dan and his Amazing Disappearing Friends. The problem with the working class representing the working class is that they all too easily get carried away with the trappings of power, and accept many complex things at face value. Isn't history repeating itself right at this moment! When the reckoning comes the old boy network closes up and leaves them holding the baby. Well illustrated in the 1970's Lindsay Anderson masterpiece O Lucky Man! I'm sure they had the Poulson affair in mind when they wrote that.

Monsta you need to study a little of the modern political history of our area. Fact is they have been locked up! And the odd political agent too, though some might say that he took the wrap! When you look back at who we've had representing us over the last 50 years you wonder what the people of this area have been thinking about! There's the infamous ones like Andrew Cunningham and T. Dan Smith of course, but did you know that our smooth-talking barrister Labour MP got two and a half years in clink in 1992 for pretending to be a director of a swiss bank and defrauding two women out of their life savings? The first of our Labour MP's I can remember was Alfred Robens. Now nobody is saying he was a crook, but it's a strange kind of socialist that ends up owning a castle in the South East and sitting on the boards of numerous companies. Alf has the distinction of closing far more pits and sacking far more miners than anyone in history. This is one of the many things that local Labour would rather not talk about. In fact they'd rather not talk about anything at all because they no longer have any ideology or coherent set of ideas. People like Ronnie Campbell and Denis Murphy have not the slightest thing in common with the educated big wigs of the Labour party who are as elitist and self-serving as they come! Ron & Den were put there as a sponge to soak up dumb vote-as-your-parents-did votes for the articulate solicitors and barristers of Nu Labour. I suspect that Denis has probably woken up to this by now; that he's been thrown the very last crust, and that's just about as far as he's going to be allowed to go. Ronnie... well, it might take a while longer to soak in. The reality gap between what is and what people can be made to believe - especially the young and those with short memories - is responsible for the mess this area (and now the entire country) is in today. But rejecting the whole thing like you are doing is putting yourself in the same place as those who have been (and continue to be) duped. You need to turn your brain on and choose the least of the evils & bullsh*t on offer, and get out there and vote.

He'll be turning in his grave if you call him Eddie! A little confusion there I think between the renegade Labour MP for Blyth with one 'L' and the local entrepreneur James H. with two (as in Millne Court)! They were neither related or politically compatible - assuming renegade Eddie could have been politically compatible with anyone. I'm pretty sure there was a huge disparity in collecting libel writs too; 36-0 being the likely final score. The courtyard you are looking for would have been Fogan's Yard. It didn't back onto the Millne orchard but what was at one time the main road North (on its West side) and on the North side were probably allotments, although this was pretty close to the BUDC council yard. The Laird's House (former residence of the Chairman of the Bedlington Coal Company etc. and later James H.) did have both a garden and an orchard. It also had a rather grand tennis court on the North side too, but I don't think it was ever used post WWII. Just about no one will realise when they are using the car park that they are standing in this tennis court. It's responsible for the shape of the car park, and most of the levels (including the grassy slopes down) remain largely unchanged. On the left of the Fogan's Yard arch was an open-windowed wet fish shop (Mrs Todd?), and on the right, and just a few yards down, Mr Alsop [two L's two P's - someone correct me?] the Gents Hairdresser, a competitor of the (in)famous Billy the Barber further down the street near the Market Place. I recall being told that I didn't have to worry when in Billy's chair about his antics (including with the cut-throat razor), as he was the only person in the Bedlington who had a certificate to prove his sanity! Traditional Barber's Shop Singing really did take place, and in Bedlington too!

It was Gordon von Hindenburg-Braun wot done it. Throw away your wallet or purse and dust off the barra; because you'll need it to buy a loaf of bread before too long. Back on subject: Another confirm today that it is 6th May. So, barring a plot to invade Iran and a resulting national emergency being engineered - on previous form a not entirely impossible scenario (WoMD - Warnings of Major Defeat?) - we should see if we can get a bookie to take our money.

Looks like Northumbrian Water are in line for a bid. The Press Association doesn't give any details but the whisper is that it's from a Canadian teacher's pension fund. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5h4hdjrD8jfkk23E7lNm-V_kfSB4w

Better memory than me; though perhaps your's was a bit earlier. Though one thing I can remember is that there are two L's in Millne! I'd imagine that the folks in Millne Court are constantly correcting this too. For newbies in the Town we are talking the Tesco car park here. The buildings in question being along the West side of Vulcan Place and down from the garage (Tired & Exhausted?). An area now mostly grassed.

£538 the current UK street price. http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_1820PTZ_Laptop_LX.PNA02.018/version.asp How does that compare with a single-tasking iPad?

Perhaps the scammers know something about the sort of folks that Apple identifies as its customer base? There are far better machines out there for far less money. Like this fabulous bit of gear that's now shipping: http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/topic/2621-coming-to-a-computer-store-near-you-this-month/ There should be a free pair of Apple blinkers in every box.

Update: No one offering free shipping at the moment, and Play.com are now quite pricey for the items I looked at. Just shows that as a consumer you need to be on your toes. It's the people who aren't who are responsible for the manufacturer's and supplier's profits.

State of the election promises so far: NuLabour: Near universal 2 Mbit/s by 2012 ...and old grannies to be taxed on their fixed phone to pay for it. Tories: Near universal 100 Mbit/s by 2017 ...and keep the Digital TV levy for another licencing round to pay for the fill-in. Liberal Dems: Still waiting for an exciting new proposal. Maybe Vince to cable the country? What's the BNP policy Monsta?

And Venus is quite different too. The point is that we are BOTH comparing apples with oranges. "Junk Science"; you were meant to laugh. i.e. the tiny tiny levels of CO2 here on Earth have nothing to do with the totally different conditions on either Mars, Venus, or the BBCs jars. Neither planet has any man-made CO2 - what the hysteria is actually all about. CO2 probably is involved with the melting Mars ice caps too, but even BBC pop-science can work out that that has nothing to do with human factors. It's fluctuating solar radiation; the same Sun that shines on the Earth! CO2 in whatever levels nature sets for us is good - life depends on it. We should start looking at the real pollutants, and tell our idiot politicians that we are not quite as dumb as they take us for.

The Monsta Book of Junk Science Earth's atmosphere is 77% nitrogen and 21% oxygen. The average surface temperature is degrees 59 F Mars has an atmosphere of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon and a little bit of other gasses. The average surface temperature is -81 degrees F Conclusions: Carbon Dioxide is a cooling gas. Oxygen is a dangerous warming gas. The BBC Book of Junk Science If you get two jars and fill one with air and the other with 2630 times more CO2 than the terrifyingly high level in the atmosphere today. Then shine powerful lights on both, and don't provide any easy way for the energy to escape, the one with the air in will heat up faster (whoops, that shouldn't happen! Should it?) but keep on pumping energy in and the one with the CO2 will measure a bit warmer because the molecules in it are a lot heavier and so have more kinetic energy. Conclusions: The fact that the Earth's surface is 71% water, and if we put a bit of water in the jars a shook most of the CO2 would disappear doesn't matter at all - 'cos that would be beyond the comprehension of our dumb viewer panel, who's vote will validate our propaganda. And besides, it would give us a "wrong" result. We are all gonna die very soon unless we start trading bits of paper which give us the right to put CO2 in the air (and make Al Gore rich). Some Interesting Real Science (That the BBC won't be at all interested in) "CO2 concentrations worldwide average about 380 ppm. Compared to former geologic periods, concentrations of CO2 in our atmosphere are still very small and may not have a statistically measurable effect on global temperatures. For example, during the Ordovician Period 460 million years ago CO2 concentrations were 4400 ppm while temperatures then were about the same as they are today." http://www.geocraft....t_400k_yrs.html N.B. We are talking about total CO2 concentrations here, where the natural background is much greater than any man-made contribution. i.e. In the levels experienced on Earth total CO2 may not have any statistically measurable effect on global temperatures at all! Conclusion: This bunch of shysters are not only making alarmist predictions with no scientific basis, they're also pretending that they can measure the unmeasurable!

Now that's simply too obvious! And, though Monsta has picked up on Venus the global warmers/climate changers have a BIG problem in The Solar System. Because IF they presumed to mention Venus then others would point to Mars - and its melting ice caps! The obvious conclusion would be that the output of the Sun is fluctuating a bit, as it likely does quite regularly. No funding for Earth climatologists there then? No international conferences to regulate the Sun? Dammit - there's a really "Inconvenient Truth" Mr Gore!