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Bedlington.co.uk editorial crew went into Netto to do a test purchase this afternoon. A queue of three or four purchases ahead on the single open till. Immediately we were pounced on by an alert lady and diverted to another checkout, and then dealt with immediately. So make your mind up if we were recognised (I think probably not), or there is now a policy of eliminating the queue. Either way the management is alert, and responds to customer concerns. Conclusion: If the queue is bugging you then quietly and politely mention bedlington.co.uk
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I'd just like to say how helpful Lion Garages were yesterday afternoon when (as a non-paying customer they didn't know from Adam) we had a minor radiator problem on Front Street West. The young chappie in charge had a sudden rush of customers to deal with, and I confidently expected the brush-off when I asking for a bit of help. But no, he went out of his way to get us up and running again, and did even more importantly did it with a smile. If only all garages gave this sort of customer service!
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The weather held up quite well today for Bedlington's part in the 2009 Tour of Britain Cycle Race. Now one of the star events in Britain's sporting calendar. Our town features at around the 118Km mark, a bit short of four fifths of the way into Stage Two "“ day two of the eight day event. Bedlington is the one Northumberland town that is no stranger to the bicycle. Prior to WW2 a significant number of Bedlingtonians were employed in cycle manufacture, and the town's produce was shipped worldwide. Though the modern materials used in today's super-light bikes (not to mention their cost) would have amazed the makers of those sturdy work-bikes. Starting out from Darlington at 10:15am then swinging inland towards Stanley, Co Durham, Stage 2 of The Tour negotiates the high ground around Burnopfield before descending towards the Tyne near Ryton. The route North of the Tyne strikes out from Wylam; heads across the West Road North to Belsay; then along the Walton to Morpeth Road; leaves Morpeth along the Hepscott road to our Nedderton Village before heading down the Front Street and Bedlington Bank towards Bebside. Southward from Blyth the final leg is from Seaton Sluice to Gateshead quayside, routing there through Cullercoats, North Shields and Wallsend. The total time for the stage is estimated at three hours and thirty seven minutes to cover a distance of 153.3 Km. That's an average speed of almost 42.4 Km/h or over 26.3 mph. Considering the terrain and the many tight bends, features deliberately increased this year, that's a pretty amazing pace to maintain for so very long. Crowds on the Front Street first spied the distinctive red strip of Jim's Cycles, but it's believed this entrant never made the Swing Bridge and Gateshead quayside finish as he was seen tracking back up the street shortly after the race passed through. Jim's Cycles is to be awarded the 2009 Bedlington.co.uk Prize for Attempted Product Placement. Though "“ as TV coverage petered out well West of Morpeth, and the ITV ground crew only just made Horton Road, Bebside in time to snatch a brief shot "“ this enterprising local effort never got on-air! In the real race: first onto the Front Street was 24 year old Dutchman Kai Reus, in a lead pack of three also including Thomas De Gendt of Belgium, and Tanel Kangert of Estonia. The peloton (main leading group) of about sixty riders rounded the Red Lion only about one and a quarter minutes later. Towards the end of the race Kai Reus, part of the Rabobank team with their highly visible orange and light blue kit, managed to hold off his challengers and crossed the Swing Bridge just seconds ahead. "It's my first victory in two years, but it's a long story"¦. It was a really hard last ten kilometres for me, maybe for the peloton also." said Kai in a post-race interview. You can follow the final six days of the race on the official web site at http://www.tourofbritain.co.uk and see more local pictures in our gallery. -
See: http://www.linuxmini.com/ Another iPhone killer, and open source too! £500 far too much though, and I certainly don't need yet another phone.
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100 Things To Do In Bedlington Before You Die
threegee replied to Andy Millne's topic in Talk of the Town
I said well... almost! But you might still find an ancient shard of aluminium somewhere within a quarter of a mile radius. All I found was a few bits of fin. Anyway, the second much smaller one worked well, proving the unique (hydrogen disulphide) fuel wasn't quite as tricky as it seemed. But it was a daytime launch from Horton way, and the resulting smoke trail descending townward suggested that anything bigger (which got off the pad) would undoubtedly attact too much interest to be healthy for inquisitive teenagers. Went the way of Bluestreak, Black Knight, and TSR2 I'm afraid. Only plus was Bedlington's space program resulted in no mega-loss to the British taxpayer. Not even a window or two. -
Yes, we know there is a Microsoft Internet Explorer only display bug below Upcoming Calendar Events. It is being worked on but might take a short while. If you want it to go away faster then switch to Firefox. The other display bug near the top has just been fixed. Thanks Fourgee!
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Gawd! Are you THAT young? I'm envious!
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Let's weigh the evidence: Major interest in computers.Windows expert.Won't try Linux.Socially motivated and wants to help people.Has now installed a spelling checker.But trying hard *not* to use smilies.Interest in food.... Who lives in a howwwse, err.. handle, like this? Over to you David...
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Could someone please explain why this was billed as reality TV? Everytime I've watched (oh, well over 30 minutes in total) the participants seemed to have lost all grip on reality. And... if it IS reality... does that imply that the rest of TV is imaginary? Seemed like a very cheap way to fill oodles of hours in the TV schedule. How will C4 ever make any money now it has to pay to fill the void left?
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Anyone see the TV premiere of Straightheads on C4 last night? Should be retitled Sex and Violence Sells. And made with our lottery funds too! Of course it's "a study" into how normal decent people are forced into meeting violence with violence to survive - so that's OK then. There' a 35 minute clip from it on the net but it's in foreign (probably why here's been no takedown). http://video.google....795718958709497#
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The Town Council will be discussing what response to make to the County Council questionnaire on car parking. 6pm on Thursday 10 September at The Salvation Army Hall
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Thank norman, that's brilliant! I suspected Penker was a ball bearing but ye neva naa! It will undoubtedly get realeased on the B side of "The Bedlington Sword Dance" real soon. You had me puzzling about The County Hotel too, but of course it's the one straight across from the Central Station. Long time since I've been there. BTW did anyone notice that No 1 Shiney - the one nearest the pit - was slightly taller than the rest of the row? The numbers ran upwards towards the Glebe Road.
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..and... they are hoping for another fire?
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100 Things To Do In Bedlington Before You Die
threegee replied to Andy Millne's topic in Talk of the Town
10. Rock the town with an (accidental) explosion whilst launching an "experimental" rocket from a secret site in Plessey Woods. It was going on for 50 years ago now, and at last the truth can be told. Well... almost! -
Stick it on your window, gate, door, lampost, local bus shelter, or at least give it away to someone who is less in-the-loop. Thanks. I'm told of a "Computers? Oh, we didn't have computers when I was young!" response. Which - I suppose - is the early stirings of awareness of cyberspace.
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It's the quality of the bread that matters - must be just the right texture and have a crispy crust. None of your sliced heated dough. Which raises the question as to who supplies Bedders best Bread? Always worth paying a bit extra for decent bread I think. In Italia you'd have it sans mustard, but with a bit of mozarella garnished with rucola in a crispy roll. Much nicer in a warmer climate.
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Hi Norman! You know what this means? It means that it's now entirely up to you if the song "Playing wi me penker" is preserved for all posterity, or generations of historians build careers pondering the significance of this lost work. All the words you can remember please. And hopefully Fourgee hasn't added penker to his ex-BBC list of naughty words!
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Oh THAT Ghost! Hey, I was running Norton Ghost before he was a spectre, or even Norton branded. It was authored by someone else. I forget who Symantec bought it from, but he/they were a small European outfit with limited English, and I remember paying them about £65 for a copy - which, at the time, seemed like a bargain! Acronis has been the only way to go since at least 2000. Cloned dozens of hard drives and helped me get several people out of jams. I've got an old Acronis Disk Director too. But I've never upgraded it as the Linux partitioning utilities do a perfect job on Windoze partitions, and it was ...ummm... slightly unstable.
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What is Chinchillas paying for this plug? Seems to rate a two for the price of one to me - at very least!
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You'll hate Windoze 7 too, once it acquires 2697 patches to patch over patches over patches. But that's all part of the game of luring you into buying Windoze 8 - which will turn out to be another dud. Not only politicians bet their future on people having short memories! Define "ghosting"? I can't find it in my glossary of Micro$oft approved terms. BTW £14.99 (plus airport taxes) is a lot to pay for the indignity of being herded by Mr Michael O'Leary's underpaid staff. Sometimes I think I'm being ripped off at £0.00. Scratch cards - anyone?
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...but it's not "skinflint syndrome" to rip off a copy of a non-public-domain O/S rather than do it legaly or sort of legaly (=legaly acquiring a licence sticker)? Stange world! Stealing the DVD - intrinsic value and cost to produce circa 10p - would be theft, whereas simply stealing the software - cost to produce several pounds, and retail value and loss to the author circa £50 - isn't theft? Even stranger world!
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Think I've now done just about everything reasonable to remove manufacturer bloat from this Ultra Mobile PC. Any more and I can't use all the gismos. Now to tackle Vista itself. What can I remove to get back some Solid State Drive space from this space-hogging O/S? More importantly how do I do it? Even more importantly can I save some RAM. I've "only" got 1GB of it, and it's soldered in ! BTW I need basic Windoze Networking. All help appreciated.
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You have to appreciate that we super-rich globetrotters are very sensitive to implied criticism of our playboy lifestyle. And... you forgot the punishing airport taxes. Errmmm, yes, that was precisely the point. Gallery needs lots more of your excellent pics - and damn the expense - Please!
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OK, I conceed I should have followed up on your suggestion. Would have except events overtook this and the problem sort of fixed itself. Consider me suitably reprimanded! Lot of dumb things on this machine out of the box. Would you believe a hidden 5GB system restore partition on a very expensive 32GB fast SSD? A 1GB unecessary system file, and a mirror of the drivers CD too. That's in addition to all the freebie dross like Norton AV, and the bloat of Vista Biz. Doesn't half hibernate fast though.
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Blank, I don't have a problem with people in much more exotic places than I ever get to who post here - even though I'm a tad envious at times. Suggest you get out a little more - the small town mentality can be soul-destroying. My travel budget this year is £14.99 one way and the return for £0.00 (both plus airport taxes). Check out ryanair.com and be flexible as to dates. And, where are the pics from that very nice camera of yours? The cost of the film perhaps?