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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.

Observant members will note that the menu item Gallery has now changed to the plural. One click will show you why. It's intended to display a processed version of the Bedlington Places Gallery only on the homepage - real soon now! So.. any member can put their own pic on the frontpage, quite automagically. If the wilder members of our community behave (Mick) this will be without pre-approval - live dangerously I say! The software is now much improved on what we had even a few weeks back. It's no longer necessary to reduce your camera/phone pics, you can just bang them up from your browser. So, I expect to see a lot more contributions. You can choose which Gallery your new Album belongs to, and you can create multiple albums. You can make them private or public at will, and you can even password protect the private ones, or specify exactly which members can view them - excluding everyone else. The public galleries are now truly public. i.e. anyone visiting Bedlington.co.uk can view them. So you might want to review your Public/Private settings on some of your albums.