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I see no poll. How do we vote?

Lidl - massively good and small 900/1800w fan heater with embedded ceramic element (none of that hanging hot-wire wire crap). Three year guarantee (provided you return it to Germany or wherever at your own expense ). Thermostat, safety knock-over switch on bottom, neon indicator lamp, and oscillating motor which you can turn off with separate switch. Only 20x28x14cm. Priced under seventeen euros. Plenty still in stock when I last looked, as people don't seem to know good value when they see it, and are buying the crappy conventional element one at twelve odd. Want one, or maybe two? Or maybe a container load to sell to Argos? You'll need a Shuko to 13A UK adaptor, or to chop the mains plug. P.S.: I tell a lie - probably! There is a UK service phone number on the guarantee card.

Two arms, two legs, white, and a head (not wearing a turban) - well of course you matched the description! Haven't you heard? They're looking for weapons of mass destruction to save teflon Tony's hide in the ever so long delayed Iraq war enquiry. 10 week old pups definitely fall into that category. BTW always ask for their rank and number and slowly and deliberately write it down and read it back for confirmation. "Just for the record, you understand". Check your watch for the time of 'the incident', and look to the sky to observe which direction you were proceeding in prior to being stopped. If they comment on this write their comment down too, and read it back to them for confirmation. If asked why you are doing this just say "sorry, force of habit - I'm a news reporter".

Major decision due today. Banks have challenged the right of the OFT to decide on these matters. Is it one law for the banks and another law for everyone else? We await with interest (doubtless a very high rate of interest if we are borrowing, and pathetically low rate if we are depositing ).

If only it had been the neck! The reality was somewhat more horrific. Ronald Regan was shot too. So all the good ones, and Gordon Brown is quite safe!

Just been watching US TV news. He's being branded as indecisive, lacking in ideas, and just a plain poor president - even by Democrats. All rhetoric and no action. I hold no brief for the guy but it's sad to see the hopes of so many people being dashed. I think his so called health care reforms are doomed to disappoint. That's mainly because they are simply unfordable at the present time, and promise far more than they can deliver. Rhetorical and management ability rarely go together in a single person. This guy is no Ronald Regan, though he'd like to be a John Kennedy.

You still don't say if you are using a VGA or DVI connection - the important thing remember! Monitor has both connections and so you could just be using a DVI - VGA adaptor (possibly one is supplied with the card?). If you are using a VGA lead then the actual prob is almost certainly nothing to do with the computer or graphics card. If it's using the DVI input then try a better quality DVI lead before condemning the monitor, though here there is an outside chance the card is implicated in the problem. All DVI leads are not created equal. I don't suppose the monitor supports DVI-D but haven't checked. Probably the card does. But DVI-D leads will most often be better quality than plain ones; especially long budget plain ones! If this is 100% DVI then try swapping to a VGA lead at the same res. etc. to see if the problem persists. If it does then, as indicated above, it is fairly safe to condemn the monitor. BTW I wouldn't call this problem flaring; that's something confined to CRTs. It sounds more like a data clocking problem.

How would the graphics card know that the monitor has been turned on and off a few times? As usual not enough info to give an accurate diagnosis. VGA or DVI or other connection being the main unknown here. Make and model of monitor + graphics card would help too. And.. we don't even get to know for sure if it's a CRT or LCD. General advice: right click on the desktop and change video res. and colour depth to see what happens. Normally this would sound like duff graphics RAM chips on card, but in this case it is starting to sound more like local RAM or display circuitry on the monitor.

There's a guy with a little truck that brings it down from Kielder at (what was) a reasonable price for a transit-type truck load. Saw him parked down the church lane outside the council houses facing twenty acres a long while back. Maybe knock on a few doors down there and ask as I've lost the phone number - unless anyone else has his details? Was quoted about £45, but I'd expect fuel price inflation to have upped that.

We bought our coke from Straughan (sp?) on Station Road Stannington - which is perhaps nearer. Though the last time I was there was well over ten years ago. Is James on West Sleekburn Industrial Estate now CPL? Used to go there too, but I got upset about the number of damaged plastic sacks and the resulting mess in the back of the car. Tip: refuse anything with any kind of hole as the plastic isn't at all strong and will split. Keenleysides will probably have the small sacks of smokeless to get you started. Phone number on site here. Let everone know how you get on and where you get the best service/deal please.

But... but... but... to keep things fair Morpeth.co.uk won't consider you a full member until you log-in there and so show some interest in our near neighbour. We don't want unbelievable inflated figures like some other web sites. Some of the common interests are to be syndicated to make it better for both towns. For instance if you post up a classified ad on Bedlington then it will also get shown to Morpethians - so increasing the choice for everyone. Who knows where this neighbours-helping-each-other will end? So you do not need to join Morpeth.co.uk, simply use your Bedlington user name and password to log-in there, and the rest is automatically done for you.

Divide and conquer? Perhaps more accurately expressed as emasculate.

Great to see the new FREE classifieds starting to take off. Believe me this will be a big feauture of B.co.uk before not too long and improvements are being made as we speak. Anyway the point is that you wouldn't dream of putting up a listing on that auction site (the one that's not half as good as BCOUK ..and where you can regularly get ripped-off buying things sight-unseen) WITHOUT getting out your camera or mobile phone and uploading a couple of pictures. Yes, people here can come around and see your goodies for themselves, but you gotta get them there in the first place. On the web a picture is worth an infinite number of words, and whilst you are at it spend a few seconds more taking some alternative views of your treasure. Pictures sell things far faster! P.S. If you do have any probs uploading, the moderators or admins really really want to hear about it, and will hold your hand if necessary. We are constantly seeking to improve usability.

I've got several things, but I don't think Gordon Brown will be reading it. If he is I'd like to know where my tax refund is? We've (unavoidably) paid the tax that was due twice, and he wouldn't give me several months (near interest free) to pay what I owe him. I suspect he's blown my meagre earnings and hasn't got the money to pay what he owes! (Maybe he can't print it fast enough? ) Different excuse every time from the tax office. What a way to run a country!

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)?