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1382 X 1382 pixels isn't terribly big these days. Try to upload them as-is first. If it doesn't work tell me and I will look into any problems. The server software produces the thumbnails automatically so there's no need to do that either. I've bumped your storage space to 50MB so you won't run out of personal space. (Anyone else who is out of space only needs to PM a request for more).

Not quite that simple, is it? You can use it as a proper name for someone, but you can't use it quite innocently in connection with a child's fantasy. How can anyone in their right mind believe that this teacher was "Inciting Hatred". If that is the case then this is a hateful religion that should be condemned by any thinking person. But, of course it isn't! It's a religion that is in an utter mess; one that doesn't know its a. from its e.! It's a religion that needs to get its act together, and it's certainly one that we shouldn't officially recognise in the country (and so consent to its hideously out-of-place palaces blotting our town and cityscapes) until it does. No, I don't think she did! I think she was the victim of an official in the school who could quite easily have stepped in when first aware of the matter. But, this person, for whatever reason, chose to escalate the matter, and exploit a highly exploitable situation to get rid of her. That's a hateful act in itself, and one no decent society would choose to disregard. I suppose you are going to defend the stoning of rape victims too, on the grounds that it's the law in thar parts, so we should respect it? Sorry if the mental leap involved in comparing apples with oranges in my last sentence was too big. Without the associated fruit comparing their flavours is pretty meaningless. BTW as you get older you'll realise that there's quite often a lot of horse sense in boozed up right-wing ranting; far more so than in indoctrinated down left-wing chanting.

Sorry, but that just doesn't hack it. Not by any stretch of the imagination can this teacher be said to be inciting racial hatred. It's all about religion not race, and there's no form of hatred involved - period! OK, so you want to draw comparisons: A Muslim could carry a banner up Front Street saying that Christ was the Satan, we were all going to burn in hell, and he'd be lucky if anyone paid the slightest bit of attention. He could call his dog (hopefully female) The Virgin Mary; his cat Moses; his house The Ark of the Covenant; name his hens after the Apostles, and it would be lucky to make the local rag of a dull news-free day. Let's stop being apologists for sheer lunatics. Once again this illustrates that "The Multi-cultural Society" is an absurdity dreamed up by some overprivileged, brain-dead, lefties who never did an proper day's work (hello Mr Anthony Wedgwood-Ben). Such a barmy idea has never worked in any society in the whole of history, and if taken any further will do for ours! Britain alway has accepted foreigners, foreign ideas, and borrowed from foreign cultures. But it has done it on it's own terms, and its inhabitants have never before been told how they must think! We've know instinctively how to behave decently towards other races and cultures. Its about time it was spelt out to immigrants that you come here to fully integrate - and that includes our standards of religious tollerance - or you don't come at all!

Pretentious? Moi?!

Wikipedia.org doesn't seem to know anything about this derivation. I think perhaps you should add it to make sure it isn't lost to future generations. Yes, you can add things yourself - that's how it has grown so phenomenally. Cross-checking I see that they're already spot-on on Netty!

Well there you go; you learn something new every single day Fourgee! I think maybe he was fooled by "white v on a blue back ground" Mr D. Which to me indicates monsta is talking about nav_m.gif. Anyway, I say bring back the old Market Cross favicon - except, I'm told it's not compatible with modern browsers; so how about a 21st century scalable version?

Surely it's the mining connection. The Klondike gold rush happend just before the turn of the centurary. Most miners from wherever must have contemplated becoming involved, and many of them actually did. I've mining on both sides of my parents families. On my mother's side, her parents did follow the call of gold. But later, to a more mature industry, and not quite that far West. Anyway, amongst mining communities The Klondike would have become a euphemism for for somewhere way-out; somewhere you only ventured to at your peril. Hence Klondike, Cramlington. In such dangerous occupations a sense of humour wasn't optional, it was an essential survival mechanism.

No - as someone has already hinted - I think you've got your crosses and cribs a tad crissed there Monsta! It's a celebration of the birth of a saviour, tacked onto an ancient pagan ceremony to bring the sun back! Debateable which one of those is more pointless in the North East!

Now completed. Thanks go to Fourgee for his time - appreciated!

Already answered that; pay attention in the back row! The answer is no. And, I don't like - like! Lots of moms and pops in our area probably still do though - under the impression that it was as safe as Barings and The Bank of England. I've been saying that is was being run by a bunch of incompetents for the last twenty five odd years. Unfortunately no one seemed to be listening!

The greatly anticipated Branson masterplan surfaces. In short: the existing shareholders pitch in £650M of good money after bad. Virgin tips in £250M (roughly equal to what NR is bleeding every single day just at the moment), and somehow manages to end up with 55% of the equity! Get this one past the censors and RB will soon be able to put his train set back in the box, and retire to the Bahamas. Even be able to afford his very own island!

Sorry - rescheduled for Wednesday due to backup problems. Got a good one now, but too late to start today.

OK Team Bedlington is ready to upgrade. Board will need to be turned off for an hour or two shortly. Sorry for any inconvenience.

The real joke is that the data isn't encrypted. Nor have they said exactly what they mean by password protected - all in the "public interest" of course! The Revenue has also reportedly "lost" no less than 42 laptops in the last year containing sensitive data! On top of this we've recently had a chief constable resign over (amongst other things) his own "private use" of the police national computer. But the fact is that all these are only the instances that get reported - they're the tip of the iceberg of public body data leaks. If anyone thinks that any public body can be trusted with their ID card data they're not living in the real world. ID cards would be a total waste of billions of pounds that are badly needed elsewhere. They wouldn't save anyone's time except criminal's, and be just something else to lose!

And the buck - once again - stops at Mr Alastair Darling! Accident-prone just ain't the word for it. He'd better find someone else to blame sharpish, or Malcolm is right and it's the 'r' word!

No, he'll blunder on. In 21st century UK politics (or public service) being responsible for the murder of an innocent person, or blowing half the national reserves, isn't a "resignable" offence! Try explaining the Profumo Scandal to the current generation. What will cost him his job is his advice to Brown not to go to the Country when he had a chance. GB might just have made it past history's rather short unelected/never-elected Prime Minister roster, but the imminent collapse in house prices will do for them both. He's had an exceptionally long run on Maggie's coat tails as chancellor, so can't complain. Or if he does it can only be to Tony, and I somehow don't think Tony will be listening! On NR it's a matter of "gearing" and "firesales" and "confidence" and "contagion" and "loss-of-goodwill". In high finance one and one don't ever make two. It's not essentialy due to bad lending, but to overtrading and poor managment. It's also due to the fact that many anticipate a collapse in the housing market - which sort of makes one inevitable.

Easily done, they're all here: http://moneyextra.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/inde...3&words=NRK But you credit them with too much intelligence; the last three I checked out are all buys at seven or eight pounds! Anyone pondering buying these shares should consider that even below a pound they are not any sort of investment, they're a pure gamble. I don't believe that any investment pro would touch them with a bargepole.

No, that would be a bee sock. Soc. is the standard abbreviation for society. Note the full stop. Punctuation is sometimes very important. Curiously, Building Societies are the subject of this thread. Or rather one particular B.Soc. that converted into a bank. As you seem to hate banks it would be very interesting to hear exactly why? And even more interesting if you could propose something that would be better.

Yes, I follow the FTSE, and sometimes the dow, but seldom the NASDAQ. It's a dull job but someone has to do it. Rather like there's always someone needed to post dull and boring one-liners - lamenting the fact that no one else is posting dull and boring one-liners. Someday you might need to go to a B.Soc. to buy a house too. You can't rely on endless supplies of cardboard boxes and second-hand corrugated iron sheet - the world is rapidly running out of these. And there are people who need these vital materials more than you. You've just got to watch the news to discover this. You do watch the news? p.s. Note that that is six whole lines - seven if you include this!

Absolutely! And, to whoever suggested that the people queueing for their money were being dumb: no lesser person than the Governor of the BoE has gone on record as saying they were doing the only rational thing in the circumstances. It's has been estimated that NR now owes the BoE £2Bn in interest payments. So my earlier suggestion that the shareholders are wiped out looks to be nearer the mark than the rash Mr Freddie Shepherd. And, that wipe-out will undoubtedly include your charitable foundation's 74,333,500 shares Ms Fiona Ellis! Another confident statement maybe? Or are we going to see some resignations there too? A complete !*!@#-up by Alastair Darling. He appears to have committed almost half the national reserves to propping up a small badly-managed outfit that only counts for about 2.5% of the UK's banking, and which could easily have been let fail. The depositors would have had some protection, and the mortgages would have been sold on by the liquidator. That's no more than NR was doing anyway! So... we are now left wondering what will happen if one of the majors fails. The BoE simply doesn't have enough of OUR money to throw at that sort of exercise. No wonder that - after a long period of stability - the pound is falling against the euro. The lesson for other building societies is stick to your roots; that is, loaning local mom'n'pop money back to local mom'n'pops. It's a low-risk business that serves a social purpose. Of course to do this you need to have piddling little street offices in piddling little towns. Offices in the sky won't hack it in low finance. High finance is high risk - risks which you often can't see coming, or when you can it's just too late.

But a troll that has *finally* found his Caps Lock key nevertheless!

Video uploads don't work, just for starters. Bedlington in Motion - isn't!

In the next week or maybe earlier. Gallery and Blog problems to be fixed too - I'm led to believe! Will try to give at least 24 hours notice of the work.

Very pleased to hear it! So why not do the other thing instead?

What has this to do with Bedlington?