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Doesn't upyouralley.com (or something) attempt to do this? When I looked a year or so back all it had about Bedders was a long dead (and unresolved) complaint about doggie poo on the grass. Something more focussed would probably be a goer if given time - complaining is one thing people are good at! So yes, I'd use it.

Nobody in Bedlington knows less about football than I, but as a long-term investor and fund trustee I don't think there is any way you can call putting money into ANY football club an investment. That goes for big fish investors as well as small. Sure it's an very interesting and nice thing to do, but it's not a bankable investment in the sense that if you spread your money over multiple clubs you'd be almost certain of a long term gain. Is there such a thing as a football club investment trust? People do make money through owning clubs, but that is the exception rather than the rule, and often more by luck in timing than by judgment. There's an ever decreasing supply of "vanity investors" at the moment to make this come about. So the usual cautions more than apply. i.e. never "invest" more than you are prepared to lose, and shares can go down as well as up. I'd have thought that a campaign focusing on the (re) naming of the ground would have a very good chance. There is perhaps enough public support to ensure that any change could be made to look a farce, and holding naming rights made embarasing for prospective purchasers. It wouldn't involve much expenditure, and only an investment of free time.

Might just be that it's not a visible light photo but some sort of enhanced IR. That could explain the look of the exhaust gasses too.

Looks like someone forgot to remove the jumper leads! If this is the new rocket could it have a much higher velocity exhaust? Those columns of hot gas look much more compact than I remember from previous US rocket launches.

Don't worry, he will be cut off from his cozy non-job long before any downloaders are terminated. People concerned with this will make the right noises for about six months then all will be forgotten. Actually, I wonder if under Mandelson's Law would see me cut off for torrenting a fully legit Ubuntu Karmic CD .iso from the original source just now? Who is going to vet every single KB of data (which could easily be heavily encrypted)? There will always be a work-around of any dumb rules. TPB trackers are hardly missed as it has given a boost to P2P tracking technology; which seems to work remarkably well now. I've noticed several torrents still going strong long after the trackers listed in the .torrent files have died. Files acquired purely for academic research purposes - of course!

Was just about to buy W7 compatible Acronis True Image 2010. Just in the nick of time I find out that it has been spiked with some crazy DRM system - which means the serial number you buy is not the serial number you use to install it with! Apparently it's been like this since the (Vista compatible) 2009 version. Result a sale permanently lost to Acronis; I will just stick with what I've got, and never consider their product line ever again. After all a bitcopy of a hard drive is a bitcopy of a hard drive, whatever is on it. And, who needs all the added rubbish in the latest versions? Quality 1TB drives are cheaper than a modest restaurant meal for two these days. Would be interesting to know if the old versions of Acronis are fully functional under W7's XP emulation. If you can boot Linux on your machine you can clone a drive off the command line and do all sorts of stuff with native Windows partitions anyway. In fact when you play with Linux Gparted you are left wondering why the whole hard drive management thing is made so difficult under Windows.

Welcome to the wonderful world of M$! Do you want the version that promises to deliver what you were mislead in to thinking you'd already bought, or do you want the version which unlocks some of the features we went to a lot of trouble disabling, simply to be able to part you from even more money? Uncertainty, Fear, and Doubt - all major M$ "profit centers". Not what was advertised I think! Still, you could always have asked a Currys/Dixons Salesperson, just to be sure! Or Noobs and Experts? What's the betting that there will be an unforeseen shortage of this cheap upgrade route come the Christmas trade, and come the rapid establishment of W7 as a must-have. Guess we are going to find this out quite soon; as two of the machines to upgrade run XP - one Pro and one the "Dirt cheap for Netbooks 'cos we don't want anyone to actually try Linux" Version!

Better still get him to post his details here: http://www.bedlington.co.uk/directory/add-to-the-directory/ or, if he's not web-aware, offer to do it for him.

One of your dumbest ever posts Monsta - you're more intelligent than that! Take the trouble to look at the evidence against this guy. Anyway, some of the relatives don't believe the official line either, and an a staged climbdown is now in progress. It will take a while - not the least because there's an argument about who is going to handle the hot potato. Distance yourself as much as possible from the consequences seems to be the current strategy. They know what's coming, and it won't look too good for the justice system! Ah, but it was the Scottish justice system that perpetrated this; no, no, this was imposed on us by the English, etc. etc. http://news.bbc.co.u...and/8324742.stm There's also the possibility (some think probability) that intelligence knew about this beforehand. And, if that is the case, some of the guilty are hiding in our own ranks!

Actually he's saying what just about every other party is saying - immigration should be severely limited or stopped. He's not now advocating repatriation. The treatment of immigrants has a great deal to do with how many there are, and how they act. The vast majority of people agree that there are now simply too many (economic) migrants, and many people don't like the cultural changes that are being imposed. To take one example: I for one think the mosques that now scream out in our major cities are hideous. If I'd applied to build anything so way out of character with our existing landscape and historical framework I'd rightly expect to be - indeed would be - turned down flat. But our planning rules have been subverted on the grounds of multiculturalism. Note that no one is saying that there shouldn't be mosques, but they should make an effort to erect buildings that are in character with the culture. When we had a wave of Jewish immigrants they at least had the good sense to build their synagogues in a way which didn't challenge or be seen to subvert the culture they had chosen to settle in. The current wave of immigrants have no such common sense! They appear to very many people to be out to subvert our culture and replace it with theirs. Then there's the frightening demographic bombshell that will result from the huge difference in birth rates. "How would some of our members feel if they were expelled from their current homes and sent back to Bedlington?" I'd hope we'd extend them the charity and welcome they deserve! In fact we've done it several times when Brits were expelled for various countries for no other reason than their origins. Oh, and I'm sure Nick Griffin would like to bounce this one off Jack Straw too: http://www.newstates...om/199901220021 I can remember it, but it seems many in Nu Labour would rather it was swept under the carpet. I can only agree with you about other drains on resources, but that's beside the point. Whether they know it or not, what I think most people are exercised about is The Great British Multiculturalism Experiment, imposed on us by an unaccountable liberal elite. These are the same people who shouted down Enoch Powell. Now that the whole thing is going TU these people are keeping their heads down. Yup, we're off topic to an extent. So in answer missvic about that audience just turn on Sky News to see the result of their survey. They are saying that 22% of people interviewed would seriously consider voting BNP. What's more more than half those interviewed think they are making valid points. In that light do you still think that BBC audience was representative? William Hague has just been recorded saying he thinks that if the range of issues was discussed then the BNP would be exposed as a one-issue party. Nick Griffin is saying that he wants to discuss the whole range of issues. Shouldn't we be permitted to judge who is right and who is wrong for ourselves instead of being told what to think by the Peter Hains of this world (one of the very people that has a hand in the current economic mess)?

Of course we don't have blanket free speech. But we do have a degree of tolerance to conflicting views. Apparently that tolerance should now only apply to alien cultures, and not to our fellow Britains! Nope, you have to accept the audience as it is. No air of superiority, no Peter Hain I know what's really good for you. One person's "educate" is another person's indoctrinate. This is what democracy (and our enlightened capitalism) is about. People have to be allowed to make mistakes and learn from them themselves. No central committee to dictate what's good and what's not. No party line. God knows we've made a big enough mistake with Gordon Brown and his profligacy! But the strength of our system is that we can, and will, learn from it. Ah - you are talking about Nu Labour then? I don't think there is any country in the world that is happy to accept penniless asylum seekers. Why should our small country take on this burden, especially now that it is financially challenged? Very easy to get an international junket together on a non-existent problem like "climate change" - so why not do it on this thorny problem. Surely sharing out the burden of GENUINE asylum seekers according to available resources shouldn't be too much of a challenge to our political elite? It won't take billions we haven't got to resolve either. Could I suggest is that the reason is that there's few votes, and even less sound bites, in so doing? "they should be stopped" -- Great! So who is going to be the arbiter of who is lying and who is not? At this point in history we are all reasonably educated people who should be able to see through empty promises. This is the very elitist argument that is at the core of Nazism. We are fit to rule and you are just poor serfs. And on the sex offender tack when does someone who is afflicted with a disease that's none of their fault, become a sex monster? The sad fact is sex offenders have a problem just like any other social misfits. Listening to what they have to say rather than organising a lynch mob is the only long term solution. It's also the most humane! Otherwise it's like one of those zombie films where the solution is to zap, zap, zap them, but they keep on popping up from formerly "normal" people with frightening regularity. Understanding the problem and how and where it arises is the only serious solution - unless you get a kick out of zapping them, and then you are another kind of pervert! No I'm not! I think you are a very intelligent person and beyond all that; which is why I think it's such a shame that at times you get so hung up in this lynch mob mentality. So, all this is true. But, so is a lot of what NG says. Your intolerance breeds intolerance. When you start treating someone who feels passionately about something as a fellow human being who should at least be listened to an amazing thing happens - they start treating you as someone who should be listened to. I'm sure that NG is a slimy politician like the rest of them, but he's not an island and derives his support from many many reasonable people. His base is growing because he's listening and adapting, by contrast the political dinosaurs like Peter Hain are doomed to extinction. Mammals or Dinosaurs - we all have a choice. Put another way, I'd say that in life we all need to make compromises, without compromising principals.

For a guilty man who is now "free and clear" he's going to an awful lot of trouble to assert his innocence! In fact just as he said he would. http://www.megrahimystory.net/ Meanwhile his accusers and convicters are doing a very good job of keeping their heads down in case they are called to account. It's highly likely that his appeal would have succeed, and so he's been robbed of the chance to clear his name by possibly criminal, and certainly morally corrupt, collusion in the UK establishment. In his situation could anyone have done more? More victims than there need have been here!

I don't think you will find too many Bonnie Greers or Baroness Warsis on Northern streets. But you will find millions who will echo NG's ideas (on the rare occasions when he's permitted to express them). In that sense they are token whatevers. You insist he's a "racist", but you persist in putting words into his mouth without listening to what he's actully saying. What does that make you? Intollerant - Facist - Stalinist - Nazi - chose your own (substitue for thought) label. An alternative view is that its a "clumsy" attempt to impose a set of alien ideas on a society. It's insulting to that society because in general it doesn't have the sort of unreasoning prejudice that is implied by that alien idea-set. And, it has always worked through such differences without "external help", and being told what to think! It's also counterproductive because it highlights differences which would never have been highighted before, and will be read by extremists as an attempt to subvert a culture. In the past attitudes have been allowed to evolve slowly. PC - like multiculturalism - is a recipe for unrest, and an unstable/unworkable society.

Do you honestly believe that audience was representative of the UK population? No way! It's all very well calling the BNP racist, and saying they would curb the right to free speech, but if you won't give them a fair hearing all you are doing is allowing them to accuse you of the same tactics. Shouting someone down and attempting to put words in NG's mouth (as he rightly accuses the left-wing press, and Islamists, of doing) simply illustrates how weak the extreme left's arguments actually are. A lot further than Straw and his cronies (particularly Hain) would like. If sex offenders have anything to say then why shouldn't we at least listen? I suspect few do, but at times we might actually learn something which would benefit society. Certainly the hysteria fuelled by the gutter press does nothing for society. There's always the suspicion that the only reason many from the left find him "disgusting" is that they have no answer to any of his arguments. I'd have thought that Socialism and Communism owe much of their influence to their strategy of blaming "someone else for their situation" - as indeed did the Nazis! If you continue to shout him down, and advocate censorship, then ultimately you lose the battle for ideas and he wins by default!

Hey, look what I found! http://www.microsoft...n/studentoffer/ Where do I enrol in education localy? Seems like you can do a clean install with an upgrade edition too. Possibly - as in ye olden days - you have to stick the DVD in the original machine to validate it and extract a key before proceeding?

Don't think so. It has simply confirmed people in their already strongly held views. Though I think a few people on-the-fence might come to the conclusion that he wasn't given a fair chance. He's right in saying he was personally attacked on about 25 counts and only allowed to partly reply on about 4. He was also right in saying that the program should have been about the issues - as in a normal QT - and not about him. To that extent Straw was let off the hook, as the BNP had obviously done their homework on real issues. I for one would have liked to hear what the BNP policies actually were. Instead we were treated to what others thought they might be, indeed even wished them to be.

...even if his father didn't! Once again proving that people who live in straw houses shouldn't throw stones.

What a marvellous curate's egg of an organisation the BBC is. The senior layer bows to reason and allows the BNP representation on Question Time. But, its news reporting of its own program seems devoid of all balance. Three times in an hour a "person of colour" is allowed to deliver exactly the same lengthy tirade in the guise of a question - this on prime time news! Yet, as soon as Nick Griffin is allowed to reply to this, the coverage is cut before his very first word. Following this a string of lefties are trotted out to give their rather wishful views of how the program went; not even a token attempt to air a contrary view. Someone more senior in the Beeb must have picked up on this, as on the fourth screening the tirade was edited and the first words of Griffin's reply was included. And... guess what? The "questioner" now looks genuinely surprised at the reply and is stopped in his tracks! Nothing like the false impression of Griffin being embarrassed delivered by the earlier editing. At the same time the string of eager lefties are edited out. You could *almost* believe what Griffin says about the BBC being a "ultra-leftist establishment". Except that's a gross oversimplification and there are obviously a lot of fair-minded and balanced people in the BBC ranks. What a pity they lose control so very obviously, and on so many occasions!

Whoops... forgot to mention that mine's a little Panasonic Lumix LZ10. Surprising that Amazon has no customer reviews when it's been out so long. Brilliant little camera that beats both my ageing Cannon G series ones hollow on nearly all counts. Image stabilisation *really* works, and I can get the shot when most bigger cameras are still struggling with setup. Good low-light performance; takes standard AA batteries; and the video is truly amazing. The best part is that it cost little more than £100! Incredible!

Dunno if I can "upgrade" a Vista Biz to a Home Premium though. The proper path is supposed to be to the Pro version of W7. But I really don't need the Pro features (or the extra bloat) on a tiny tablet. Nor do I like the fancy £160 price to fix something which should never have been broken! Your pre-release version is supposed to start shutting down after 2 hours around March. So no difference fom Vista there then! I stayed away from the £50 offer - no longer available - because it didn't qualify for upgrades; or that's what I was told.

So... looks like I'm stuck with buying a copy for a touch tablet machine that's currently burdened with Vista Biz Edition, and has only 1GB of RAM that can't be upgraded. W7 Home looks to do all I need on it, and I don't want any more M$ bloat than is absolutely necessary. So where do I get the best deal on W7 Home? Is getting an upgrade a money saver? Some upgrades seem to cost more than clean install versions!

Nice one Monsta! The best thing you've done for your town so far! Also a prezzie from M$. What is the world coming to?!

My experience too. Not mentioning and names the simplest of things seems to be beyond some of our local historians. Maybe they should borrow someone's five-year-old kid to help? Anyway, and present company excepted of course Bridget... back to The Old Hall. It was demolished by vandals (otherwise known as the local coonc'l). The site is now occupied by the outstanding piece of architecture called the Bedlington Council Offices. Constructed to the highest 1960's building standards, it was carefully and quickly distressed with cracks so as to blend into the local distressed environment/economy. I believe it is built in the the Socialist Empire (everything can be carefully planned, and committes know best) style. This of course is the same bunch of idiots responsible for the erasure of much of our heritage. Also the very same "public servants" who go around slapping listing and protection orders on every piece of uninteresting tat just because it has somehow survived long enough i.e. without any regard to the town having a future either!

Ashully everyone is - indirectly. You wouldn't be using your computer (or your digital camera even) if it wasn't for good old photography. The printed circuit boards (and the chips themselves) are wedded to light and negatives and chemicals, over and over and over again during manufacturing. Ditto the sensors, and screens. It will be a very long time before any of these goes "fully digital". If you've seen the size of some of the process cameras and photo plotters in use you'll appreciate that the photographic film business isn't going to shut up shop until most of the 21st C. is out.

Brown & Darling. Catch phrases: "It's Global", "It's a Global problem", "Don't you know it's Global". Signature tune: various, but currently most popular "Fool if you think it's over". Best solo act Screaming Lord Mandelson. Just too many classic jokes to his credit to even mention. Before these the Marx Bros took some beating.