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There are fewer recorded crimes, but that's not the same thing at all. People no longer bother to report minor ones because they know there's no redress and it's largely a waste of time. Also the police and Home Office (or department of whatever it's been re-badged this week) spend a fair portion of their time playing with the statistics. What matters is how people regard their community, and it's pretty clear that the vast majority fear for the future. Blaming the newspapers - or the ones you don't agree with - for the situation is a poor excuse. We've had ten years of a government totally dominated by spin, and most people no longer believe anything they are told by big government. Even Gordon B. seems to acknowledge this in his latest speech. And.. isn't the colloquialism going to hell in a handbasket?

Of course! About a dozen a day; and someone protects you from all the pills porn and poxy goods. For every genuine member registering there are about fifty instances of Internet slime. And four out of five of the ones who have a genuine interest in our Town either don't read the rules on registering or don't have the courage to post a hello. Result: they get zapped after a polite reminder! As it says somewhere, the site is for active members only, we aren't collecting lurkers. That's why when you join you get a membership number of about 1300 at present. Do not confuse the graffiti police with the thought police though. Superwoman and Batman+Robin rarely have a convo, and I'm not aware of any visible posts having been removed recently.

Spot on! The practise was called Hall & Tully, and they operated from a former private house in a one of the terraces on the Victoria Terrace side of the road - park right outside! The waiting room was the downstairs front room and Mr Tully had his surgery in the downstairs back room. There was a (main?) surgery at the Guidepost too, though I never went there. Mr Tully was actually a very good dentist of the old school. I visited him quite a number of times in the 1970's when I got a little fed up with Mr Henderson on Front Street West. Though his gear wasn't anything like so up-to-date as Mr Henderson's, he was nevertheless a very competent NHS dentist. He was also fairly sociable, and, sad to say, he clearly knew and remembered a lot more about me that I ever remember about him! He did have an appointment system, though I can't recall anyone else ever being in his waiting room when I was there - generally midweek. He didn't employ a dental nurse and I can't recall any sort of receptionist on site. I think there was quite probably another surgery upstairs, but it didn't seem to be in use by then. Overall the practise did leave the impression of being from a bygone age, even in the early 1970's. I guess that by that time he was fairly close to retirement though. I vaguely remember someone telling me that they'd closed the Station Road surgery, and that I now needed to go to Guidepost. It could be that they'd closed that too by the time I needed him again - because I never ever got there!

The A had (4x) 120MW generating sets and the B had 275MW generating sets. That's a big M for megawatt, not a small m for milliwatt. I'm told that the B was the second largest station in the country for quite some time. Technology moves on!

And, you can bet Northumberland will suffer more than most! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6664109.stm

Yes, you may be right on that one, I could well have been thinking of the (much lesser known) Oddfellows Arms. But, hasn't that vets now closed down too? I remember a closure notice on the door.

1) It's now supported directly by the board. 2) Most people don't use non-MS browsers.

The only association of the name I can recall is that the stone building (now flats) just before the easterly entrance to Hollymount Square was originally "The Gardner's Arms" public house. I know this because I've seen the title deeds to the property, though I'm no longer sure about the precise spelling.

Means absolutely nothing, except maybe he didn't do his homework and/or was far too greedy. An uncontested CC judgement is not even a platform ticket! This one will run, and run, and...

It's the ABC/Tick button up top right of the text entry window. So... no more excuses for lousy spelling; but picking the wright word might be a tad more difficult! 1) When you hit the ABC/Tick button for the very first time it will tell you that ieSpell is not detected, and prompt you to download it. 2) Click OK and your browser will offer you a list of download sites. The first one of these will probably be C-Net. 3) On your choice of download web page click that site's download link, then hit the [RUN] rather than the [sAVE] button when prompted. 4) Accept the default install options, and ieSpell will install in a ./Program Files/ieSpell folder. 5) At the end of the install you'll be prompted to restart Internet Explorer, so close down all instances of Internet Explorer then hit the Internet Explorer program icon to restart it again. 6) At this point you'll be able to right click on an Internet Explorer Browser Window and spelling check the text you've entered. That's ANY Internet Explorer Browser window with text entry boxes, not just this board. But you won't get full functionality until you click on the warning bar at the top of the Browser window and install the Active-X Control. When you do this the ABC/Tick icon on this board will run the spelling checker directly. Installing this free Internet Explorer plug-in is well worth the couple of minutes effort, because - as already noted - it will work from the right mouse button on any text entry you do on any website. The website doesn't necessarily have to directly support it like this board does. The plug-in will also install an ABC/Tick icon on the IE Toolbar. Enjoy!

Full story from the Beeb here.

Shouldn't think so; you have to click the VOTE button after you select the correct radio button. Anyway, I've voted for you as I've no strong feelings on the Denzel issue!

We were always told that BPS was the biggest contributor to Wansbeck rates. Of course sans Wansbeck this would have been Bedlington local taxes. And, a good many community centers that would have built by now! And on a lighter matter - a much lighter matter - he'd probably have had difficulty taking your call anyway! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18334489/

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.