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The Mail has now re-written their article to remove both the name, and the holier-than-thou stuff about the Internet. But they've added an open invitation to find out for yourself: Obviously a more experienced journalist at work here, and a better read. I believe the gender may already have been mentioned by the British press: yesterday - by the Daily Mail!

And now... someone has removed it! :D Censorship on Wikipedia? Is there a new year's honour at stake here? The plot thickens.

Skypezones, now free calls worldwide from your pocket. http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/allfeature...CFQOTMAodWXmyJw Watch Newsnight on BBC2 tonight.

And the Daily Mail is playing games too: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...70&ito=1595 Read the article and it's a simple process of elimination. If you are in any doubt they've almost spelled out the location. K.E.N..

Wikipedia has just added a paragraph to cover it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Frederick_Windsor The amusing bit is the quote from 1999: "It is very difficult to avoid getting into this sort of thing when you move in these circles.." Now which circles could he possibly mean? Surely not the Royal Family?!

Well, you've spelt it right! I hear there was a major conspiracy to deprive Bedlington of it's main-line railway station. The one Stevenson planned to build here. The hoi-paloi of the County diverted the main East Coast line through that stink-hole of Morpeth at huge extra cost, and so were forced to build Morpeth Station in a weird place on the other side of the river. Bedlington would have been a far larger place as a railway terminus for the coast line, not to mention the benefit to our local pits. So.. once again we wus robbed! Hanging ain't good enough for them toffs I say.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/uk/v...?ad=1&ct=50 A posting on Yahoo says: So.. if they hadn't issued a gagging order, and the whole thing had been in the open - like mere mortal's cases - it would have gone unnoticed, or at least have blown over by now. Wonder how much the whole charade cost the taxpayer?

Putting a gagging order on topical news is a "red rag" to the Internet.

Hmmm... to easy then with so much info available by simply Googling? OK, next week we are going to do it differently. Answers won't show until the weekend so everyone gets a fair chance. Everyone will get one point for a correct answer, and we will tot up weekly results each season to give four winners a year. The overall winner for the past four seasons will hold the Brain of Bedlington title (working title). Anyone with any questions with a local flavour please PM them to me. We need some topical/pop questions so's "old lags" won't have an unfair advantage. Thanks.

This week it's all about numbers: * Add the number of all the main roads joining (or running along) Bedlington Front Street. (e.g. A68 = 68, B2721 = 2721) No single road number to be added more than once. * From the above total subtract the year of the next (London) Olympic Games. * From the above result subtract the number of scan lines in an American (USA) TV picture. (UK system is of course 625 lines) * From the above result subtract the street number of The Grapes. The result is: ???? No posting part answers to help other people please. All your own work!

Close, but no cigar! The answer is Skype Zones Full list here: http://skypezones.boingo.com/search.html ----------------------------------- Standby for this week's quiz.

You've really got to spend some time playing to see how it works. But there's no worry about messing-up as you can re-edit as many times as you can be bothered. If you have tried and still have a problem PM me by clicking my name on one of my posts and selecting Send Message. Doing this for any user brings up the PM system in your own control panel with the person's name you want to contact already filled.

You've got 10MB of upload space here. If you need more simply PM. Some members already have 50MB or more. The attachments box is below the posting window, it tells you there how much space you have left. If there are problems then I need to know. If you need examples on how to do anything there's also [bB Code Help] button just below the posting window to the right. How to do most things in a post is pretty well illustrated there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7061603.stm Seems to me that Sir Al Aynsley-Green should return his obscene salary and/or resign. He's clearly out of touch with both public opinion and stark reality. Wonder how his own kids turned out, and if he practises what he preaches?

It's OK; we have the audacity - we can rebuild it! Better, faster, more cutting! It's now called Hometown but sadly I'm stuck for a rhyme with crack cocaine for the third verse! :D

On a lighter note [no pun intended]: There's room for a great song here (to the tune of Wheels on Fire). Bins on Fire Standing In Haigh Road Notify the W-D-C That Bin could Explode! --- Chorus: Run'n get the Fire Brigade... the Fire Brigade.. to put the Bins all out... Run'n get the Fire Brigade... the Fire Brigade.. the Bedlingtonians shout!

I believe Goebbels thought the same way!

Another clue: The SHOULD be able to answer this question at The Ridge Farm. But I'm not putting money on that!

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=677124 http://forum.truckersworld.co.uk/viewtopic...2680fa2cdf05649 Give another ISP a try before you shoot the pianist. But first clear your browser cache and check there aren't local problems. Are you using broadband or dial-up? If you PM me I will show you how to find out where any congestion is.

Did read your earlier post, but last time I looked there was no law that says I had to reply to it! Where are these other complaints then? Server is very lightly loaded. Seldom running at about more than 10% CPU, so I'm afraid we will just have to agree to disagree. Yes, we could put the site on our UK machine to reduce the ping time a bit, but there are several reasons why not at present. If you've got a half decent transatlantic connection via your ISP, and everything else is equal, then the site has good performance. What you experience on the Internet is seldom what other people experience. Point me at a site that you *think* is faster to load and I will run some comparisons.

BBC News Item:- Former miners in damages victory

Feel I must report that Schalksmuehle (rather like Goebbels) has none at all! And... the UK is winning by about 8 to 1 on this at the moment - no penalty shoot-out this time round!

Think technology. And no, it's not 24Mbit ADSL connections. fourgee probs had the first of those. Though I'm not quite sure why!

The site is not slow. Change your ISP - they have a lousy connection to the USA, where all the Internet happens.

The UK have more than twice as many as the entire USA, and is a World leader in? Newcastle have 18 of? Ashington have 3 of? Cramlington have 5 of? ..and Bedlington only have one of (the same as Afghanistan and Egypt)?