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Certainly! But only if you are a councillor on an all-expenses-paid goodwill visit! So, blame that bloody Binks clan again! Sorry Chris - err... just joking!

Only the location has been changed, and the well known character's name slightly fuzzed.

Not heard of the sequel to How Green Was My Valley? Gallagher Green My Pit-heap Now. :D

If this is - as I sort-of suspect - a Perrystone Corp. development, then no one will be able to answer this question accurately ...especially the planning authority, trade suppliers, the tax authorities, or any poor, deluded, buyers!

No, it doesn't help at all! Monsta might have been badly influenced by the devious Nick Griffin, but what Malcolm (and others) see is what I see. He cares about where he lives, and he is the FUTURE. That alone sets him apart from the other dumb ******* who visit but don't post. Twenty years hence his latent intelligence will have caught up with his raw energy, and he'll be a force in the Town. By then - if we are alive at all - we'll be voting as we always voted, because that's what we always did!

You wouldn't need to pay entry fees if you said you were the reporter from the Town's website and were doing a write-up on the club! You'd be doing them (and the Town) a favour. A special seat and free refreshments are the norm, but I wouldn't push it until you have an established reporting record! Turn your printer on and here you go: __________________________ ** PRESS PASS ** __________________________ WWW.BEDLINGTON.CO.UK Official Sports Reporter __________________________ .

No other town has this amount of free parking so conveniently placed. The ones at the West end of the Front Street are quite pretty too. And.. before the disparaging remarks about well that no one uses them because there's nowt to do, nowhere to shop - that's would be a gross exaggeration.

Plentiful UNCROWDED pubs would be a plus to a lot of people. Don't you mean sun parasols? :D

I Am the Walrus.

A self-defeating post; you just did give them a mention! It's all to easy to snipe and throw out one-liners, but there's nothing at all to stop you correcting this yourself. Go collect some real information, photos, etc. Do the best job you can and I will see that it gets tidied up by pro's and given the exposure it deserves. With this you have credibility. Without it you are just an angry young man tilting at windmills!

Best explanation I've heard so far. But it's always been like that - since the time when only the wealthy had an ox cart to get to Morpeth!

Hadly the point, it's about personal feelings and choices. I'd bet the sheer number of pubs in Bedders marks it out from the crowd though!

Because they obey the (outdated) law on closing days, which is supposed to be enforced by WDC.

No, but the wider implications of how government handles retailing is! IMHO interference and mishandling by politicians has destroyed whole communities, and wreaked plague on our countryside. It has also cost the country billions! In the case of our Town there's a particular case to be answered by certain local politicians. They are far too frightened to come on here and discuss the matter lest they offend the party bosses in Westminster, or say something which will be picked up by the opposition or national press.

We've had a few delicatessens over the years. Smart one next to the PO when I last looked. There's also the outfit at Sleekburn growing/selling organic veg., not to mention the mini-brewery there. Caterers operating from private houses, the bakery at the station (sadly closed his Front Street shop, but you can't blame him with the attitude of the WDC to small business). At least two small butchers. A lady who makes cakes to order. The odd small fruit and veg shop still trading, and doubtless a few more non-chain suppliers of fresh goods I've yet to discover.

Sounds insane, but competitive forces are (mostly) working in the UK. In parts of Southern Europe you pay two to three times more per killowat - which makes UK electricity look VERY cheap! Someone in Otterburn hasn't been doing their job studying the small print, and then chosing the optimum supplier.

Maybe and maybe not. At the end of the day you can't buck the market, but you can educate it. Specialist suppliers would still survive, even thrive. What it would do is to allow small traders to bow out gracefully if the competition got too hot. It would encourage innovation instead of the lowest-common-denominator culture we now have. The same mindset which is the root cause of our painfully regular factory-farming driven crises. Even under current anticompetitive conditions we have a few specialist food suppliers in Bedlington. .. and that proves my point!

The Sunday trading debate has been running since the 1960's - at least! The religious angle is - and has always been - a red herring. It's all to do with outdated trades union attitudes going back far longer. I don't even think that the big shop (that can afford the extra labour) / little shop (that may be put out of business) is even valid anymore. Lots of smaller businesses, often run by industrious immigrants, have disproved this. Remember "Open All Hours"? Such trading restrictions, including local authority enforcement of local "closing days", are long overdue to be scrapped. I doubt that they've been properly enforced for decades anyway. One thing we DO need to do is to put a permanent and total stop to out-of-town, often "green field", shopping developments. It's that that has killed the center of Bedlington and hundreds of towns besides. Megastores should operate by the same rules as smaller traders, and that includes zoning. If the market demands huge stores then it should be forced to pay the same cost per square meter as smaller traders have to pay, and/or buy those smaller traders out at a fair price.

Funnily - I thought that it might be you!

Start a poll there then. We'll be bound by the democratic vote of all the chat forum users. p.s. I will be voting with monsta - against!

Because: monsta wouldn't like it!

It has been part of this software since those were even thought of. The point is it enables members to rate the worth of a subject. It's not about post count it's about content!

A bit more imagination than the last try. But clearly not up to the standard of the Guinnessy one. We'll regard it as a test post - for now!

You can now instantly rate topics in this Forum. A software upgrade to the BB is due real soon too.

You can now instantly rate topics in this Forum. A software upgrade to the BB is due real soon too.