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No need to wait, they're all here in glorious broadband:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/eurovision/2007/contestants/ Helsinki calling; what is the vote of the Bedlington Jury?

There were two - and I don't think crude comments on these lovely Russian ladies anatomy is going to do anything to further BedloRussian relations. These poor Ruski ladies are (allegedly) only trying to improve their lot by marrying filthy rich Northumbrian sheep farmers, after all - thus giving a much-needed boost to the gene pool of the Upper Tyne Valley. And who but a total bigot would wish to stand in the way of true romance?

No, it made me cringe!

I'm gobsmacked that a "lady" should utter such filth Ms Cympil!

AFAICR he had a serious accident playing rugby at some posh Scottish college. Just the game you'd expect a career socialist to be playing, really! Lucky to survive by some accounts. Anyway, he never completely recovered.

Even here Bedlington is between pillar and post! But, the MP will say that it's a matter for the locally elected officials - and he'd be right! The fact that those councillors are from the very same party as him... well... fill in the blanks yourself!

Which Ashington Hospital would that be? The one they built in the centre of Ashington in preference to a more central location. Or the mega one they built in the backwoods of Ashington that's even more difficult to get to in an emergency?

Not blaming anybody, just repeating what I was told. If the PO have changed their policy then maybe they should tell their paying customers? Fact is that the sorting office is at Ashington, as they closed the Bedlington Station one. Something which hasn't helped local business at all. Not the only thing they've closed in Bedlingtonshire either!

Nope, it's a Bedlington company, and always has been. It's the PO that force the use of Ashington since the Station sorting office closed down. But - of course - that's the whole point of the site.

There's everything on the web, but not necessarily in the right place! Do you think we should just sit back and let giant American corporations run our lives?

It's reported that Robbs (established 1818) is being closed down by company administrators, with the loss of 150 much needed jobs. Quite a blow for the people out there, and more traffic on the roads I think.

Yes, we are aware of the problem and will be working on it this week. It's probably a timeout or buffering problem. Unfortunately there are still a few day jobs to earn a crust, so we can't spend more than 20 or so hours a week on the site - though the tiny it of sponsorship so far has gone a long way. Thanks for your efforts, and everyone else who has been uploading too.

If you click on your My Controls and then select Edit Profile Information under the Personal Profile menu header you'll see that you now have a Gender selector. This isn't set for other than very new members, so please go set it to avoid any confusion - of which I note some recently. The correct pink or blue icon will then show in the appropriate places, and you'll no-longer be a sad grey. You may want to review some of the other setting whilst you are about it. If you are not on UK time then it's fairly desirable you check that you've selected your correct time zone and daylight savings time settings too, else the times on the site won't make much sense from your perspective.

Yes, this is a site for Bedlington, but not neccessarily about Bedlington. There is no longer just one galley, there are four. One is for pictures of the general area (not just the Town) - which are to be auto-resized and displayed on the homepage - soon! The other is for people and events. The third, and fourth are for whatever strikes anyone's interest. Additionally, albums can be made private or shared with a selected group of members only. There's no requirement for any albums to be publicly browsable, and of course members can now create multiple albums. Lots of historical stuff about the place has been taken away. So, this is also an opportunity for it to be scanned and restored to our heritage in electronic form.

We are about to create a new class of Bedlington.co.uk member. Current thinking is that this will be called a Contributor member, though this is open to suggestions. Contributor members will have five times the disk space that ordinary members have. To become a Contributor member you'll need to create at least two albums in the galleries, or have one album and a Blog. Both must contain some worthwhile content - just creating a Blog and a near empty album won't qualify!

Type "roman" plus "crane" into Google Nope, he outsmarted them in a way no Islamic suicide nutter could hope to do! Type "Constantine" into Google.

Before Blank points out the obvious, can I be the first to mention that the question doesn't necessarily have anything to do with religion at all. Fact 1: The Bible is a book. Fact 2: It contains some excellent stories. It's not even a Christianity exclusive - the whole "Part 1" is embraced by a quite different religion. And, followers of that quite different religion have been the first to make rather a lot of money out of the stories in the "Part 2" they don't believe in! Being antagonistic towards other people's sincerely held beliefs is behind all the World's problems. Both the Islamic suicide bomber and the British right winger inciting racial hatred are out of the very same mould. They're intolerant because the have a strong basic need to believe in something, but at root they're very uncertain of what they've latched on to, and are at a loss to find anything else. In trying to vocally convince other people they are actually trying to convince themselves!

Undoubtedly the road to Damascus. It's always the most vocal 'antis' who are the least certain of their beliefs, and so the easiest converts. The totally apathetic - like me - are the only hard cases. In time swalnalla and mongo will be a pushover, and the more they protest...

No, they're not! They're a party of the middle class South East, and long gave up on diehard Labour areas like Wansbeck as a total waste of effort and logic. That's precisely why thinking people in Bedlington have never had any proper representation. As noted above, the local Labour faces are surprisingly decent (and frank) people when you get to know them. That's their strength, and why they get elected again and again. But, the reality is that, as career politicians, they long-since sold out to a severely bent system. The real tragedy is that (in private, at least) they are the first to admit that the system is severely bent!

Winston Churchill was elected to head a wartime coalition of all parties by universal agreement. If Tony has started another of his wars then he should at least have the decency to tell us! None of the above's predecessors got elected on the manifesto promise of serving a full term. There's no longer the pretence of not being able to gauge public opinion without a formal election - it seems that even a majority of Labour diehards think that this is all wrong!

Should work, but it hasn't been tested yet. Was looking for something to test it with, but I'm not in a position to get anything relevant to Bedders just at the mo. Note that only the Video gallery will accept albums with multimedia. Each member is capped at 10MB t the moment, but we are considering upping this considerably OR having a "Contributor" class of membership which has at least 50MB of upload space available. PM me if you have a prob and we'll try to work through it.

It would be interesting to know who there is to vote for, and why we should? The Labour leader of WDC promised me he'd come on here and answer questions over a year ago! Maybe we can persuade one of the other parties to make a similar promise, and keep it?

I wouldn't use that adjective - ask for what you are due, no more and no less! Other than that will be read as weakness. You have the great advantage of knowing the banks current policy, so don't give them the counter advantage of knowing that you're not fully decided. Remember, you are just a minor irritation to them, and the very last thing they want is the publicity. Stick the court papers on them at the earliest possible moment. As long as you do your homework, as others have, it will pan out OK. It's a well-worn path, with plenty of help on the net. Life is nothing but risk, however this one scores rather low.

Tony Blair is about to announce that he's going soon. This even though at the last General Election, and in the Labour Party Election Manifesto, he promised to "serve a full term". He has now made it clear that he's anointing Gordon Brown as his successor. Should we be forced to accept this [Vote Yes], or should there be a General Election [Vote No]?

That's nonsense - the banks are worth countless billions, and the BoE stands behind them anyway. This could be a big mistake. The banks make their money from people's inertia, and it sounds like they are reading you right too. The longer you leave it the easier it is for them to claim an implied acceptance, and where would you be then? Are you then going to take them to court fighting on their own ground? The other matter could take years to settle in the courts, and probably will! The best advice is already in this thread, but it sounds like you are talking yourself out of doing the necessary.