threegee
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Thanks for the offer, but this is one thing we have plenty of in The Town without importing it from Russia!
The same goes for the pills advertiser; the guy selling software to protect my PC, and others. Thank you, but read the rules - the BedBay forums are for local residents and firms only!
Now, those local people may have nothing at all to sell; have all their wants met, and some might claim that for the most part they are lazy SOBS; web illiterate couch potatoes; totally lacking any enterprise; and apt to look gift horses in the mouth - but that's as it may be! Time will tell.
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..think its dated back to the 1700's...
I don't think they would have even recognised the term Police Station in the 1700's BLoB! Justice would have been a lot more swift and certain in those days!
From the looks of the build it has to date from somewhere about the begining of the 20thC or the very late 1800's at earliest. There are certainly photos around showing the original stone buildings that stood at the "top end", and still photography isn't that old either!
BTW you can both PM through your panel - far safer than posting an e-mail address on a public forum where it will be quickly spidered and bombarded with spam.
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On a serious note, I feel having to give out home numbers is a bit too much; it would put a lot of people off using the service.
Point taken, having a rethink. I need a way to ascertain that it's Joe from Hotspur Avenue, and not Ahmed from the Fraudsville Cybercafe, Lagos, Nigeria.
On the other hand you'd happily pay to publish it in the local rag. And... would you buy from some anonymous handle on the Internet?
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Not to our household it hasn't!...all the above information has been published in the magazine “In Touch” which is regularly distributed to EVERY household in the Wansbeck area!”
Ours is probably in a bundle in a hedge in someone's back garden - like most of our News Posts!
Of course WDC could make use of the facilities here for FREE. But doubtless that's an inappropriate use of public money!
AND... Councillor ********* - if you're reading this, you promised many moons ago to come on board and answer the queries of your electors. You are conspicious by your absence. Come election time this may return to haunt you.
Or... are you banking on a well-paid retirement before your neglect of the Town finally catches up with you? -
Sat 12:40
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We're using the unusually low activity on all domains to carry out server software updating and clean up.
This may involve a server reboot or two or three during which bedlington.co.uk won't respond at all for a few minutes at a time.
At the moment though Personal Messaging is working fine emailing other members through the board isn't - the result of a low-level software upgrade having caused an unforseen problem.
We're looking into this problem as top priority, as many other domains are involved.3G
Sat 16:04
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eMail service now restored.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2752
All supplies of sun tan lotion are exhausted.
...but the weather can't/won't last!
...but ...but 26 degrees now being forecast for Monday/Tuesday
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I will tell you exactly what's at the core of Bedlington's problems.
This isn't my personal opinion, it comes from the mouths of the
culprits themselves - the present councillors that represent the Town!
The problem is that they are very sure of their support base - people
who would turn out to vote for them, no matter what! Those people
reside mainly in the East of the Town. They also know that people
living on the new private estates only sleep in the place, drive
straight out every morning in their cars, and generally couldn't give
a monkeys! Those folk are hard work for any sort of opposition to
garner support from.
The consequence is that the people who have to earn their living in
the place - either employer or employee - aren't properly represented
on WDC. So.. the Town gets regularly shafted!
Only when the people who keep this lot of time-servers in office do
the decent thing by the Town, and refuse to turn out to support them,
will we get any change. Either that or some pretty publicity-grabbing
mass civil disobedience, which, given the present apathy, would be
very hard to organise.
That's the truth of it, and no politician of any political persuasion
will say any different in private conversation.
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ahhh, the days of ha'penny sweets are long gone! i remember handing over 1p one day and getting 4 sweets back!
It's the p's and the d's that separate the sheep from the goats!
There once was a 1d bar of chocolate, though by my day it was rather tiny.
Mind you a 6d (2.5p) bar of Cadbury's Fruit & Nut from Watsons Newsagents lasted several pages of The Eagle comic on the United bus. Sheer quality - except the United bus!
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You can now sell your unwanted household stuff here on BedBay.
No fees, no postage, no delay, low-risk. How's that for FREE!?
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Orange were giving SIMs away the other weekend too. They seem to be doing this fairly regularly if you watch the website: www.orange.co.uk £1 credit on these and without registering.
The 02 card I got didn't have any credit on it, but it did have a form that gives you £2.50 if you fill your details in and post it to them. Dunno whether that applies to the current freebies though.
The best deal - though not free - is to pick a few of the special Virgin Mobile SIMs up for a couple of quid. They each have £5 credit on them without registering. Not all Virgin SIMs give free credit though - look for the flashes on the outside of the packs.
Best PAYG mobile supplier at the moment seems to be http://www.tescomobile.com/ though it's very difficult to compare tarrifs as there are so many ifs and buts, and the price often depends on your usage. Tesco Mobile charges are both low and fairly transparent though. From memory they use 02 infrastructure.
Beware networks (like Orange) who charge a lot more for cross network calls. The other day they debited 79p for a quick call to an 02 phone at the other end of the Front Street, yet only debited 27p for a 2000 mile international call - also on a different mobile network!
...and don't get me started about international roaming charges, please!
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Is it really so much of a sweat to drive your car or board a bus to the swimming pools at Ashington, Blyth or Cramlington?
Yes, I'm sure it is!
I don't have my own car - can't justify it - and the bus services aren't that good or convenient. Would happily walk or cycle a mile or two though.
What limited facilities Wansbeck council provide the people of Bedlington with are poorly publicised and promoted. For most residents they might as well not be there!
Bedlington did far better when it ran its own affairs. All Wansbeck Council did was to close down our own swimming pool and fill it in! Bedlington gets a raw deal for the revenue it contributes to Wansbeck. That's a generally held view in the Town, and it's fully justified by both facts and history.
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Yes, really! Several hundred million people can't be wrong - except in the case of our entry, of course!
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Who won?
The Klingons won!
Though it wasn't the usual close F-i-n-i-s-h! Actually Lori is quite good, and who wouldn't fancy the pretty one playing the keyboard?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordi Wikipedia had the result chronicled within minutes - a little faster than yer actual Encyclopedia Britannica! There's only one thing you can say about that --- a-m-a-z-i-n-g! [in joke]
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Have you worked out why more people don't contribute?
Yes. Because most people are watchers on the sidelines and not doers.
That's a fact that someone, now long gone, pointed out to me. At the time the sage observation was in connection with something completely different. But... as they say... that's another story!
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and this 'active' bit, is that just for the registration? or does it release my username if i get 3 years porridge?
Active, means you have to log-in at intervals and post occasionally. If you don't log-in then you don't get to see if there are any PMs for you - so a bit pointless joining and not doing so fairly regularly.
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Local Historian John Dawson
in History Hollow
I suggest that you follow this link:
http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.co...n=ne22&x=26&y=6
..and have a ring around. Even if it's not one of the three J's there, there's not that many Dawsons in the area, and a fair few of them will be related. Even if he's ex-directory one of them will surely be able to put you in touch.