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No not in the park - that was a reference to the TV "drama"! :-) It was behind the Bedlington Station Library, I'm told. Big flap at the time, but turned out not to be foul play, or so says the grape vine. Was surprised nobody posted at the time. An odd few other interesting rumours running around the Town too. Maybe I should start a rumour factory column (under a pen name)?

You mean to say a dead body isn't exciting? Next episode of Rosemary & Thyme to be filmed in the our Park?

Member number 100 was reached a while ago - and I never noticed. The number of members quoted on the index page is the number of confirmed and active members. All boards are plagued with people who subscribe then never contribute anything, or don't even bother to confirm their details. That's providing they managed to input a vaild e-mail address in the first place! So the number of members they display is most usually grossly inflated. That's not the case here. So the current software only gives them so long to confirm, and so long to contribute something, before they're trashed. When they get trashed the lose their PMs, their storage space, blogs and everything else, and the username is released for someone else. Use it or lose it - it's all automated! We've considered giving the top users free @bedlington.co.uk e-mail in addition to the free PMing as an acknowledgment of their continued support. Will get around to coding this sometime.

Don't assume too much on the "American corruption" of the tongue. For the most part the American spelling is the unchanged, original, and correct one, and our current spelling is a Victorian aberration. ... e.g. the heavier use of the 'Z' is Old English. As are words like the Old English "fall" instead of the Victorian "autumn". What has made English the powerful World language it is, is that (unlike say French) it has no hangups about steady change, and no problem with borrowing more meaningful expression from other languages. The way to kill a language is to attempt to standardi(s/z)e it - something the French look well set to find out, the hard way! Clebrate and embrace; it's all phrasing from the same songbook!

Faithfully captured on a DVR near you. Stills - and maybe even a commentary - soon(ish)!

Don't get too excited, it was mainly just the search engines having a trawl for your collective wisdom. I'm not entirely sure why the Chinese one (baidu.com) should be taking such a keen interest in the Town though. Maybe we are due for a new influx of take-away operators?

Hey, the sun has just come out! Get out there and make the most of all half-hour of it!

Maybe their satellite pix can spot the trail of McD's containers extending down Bebside Bank to the Picnic Field? And then do something about it! That appears to be the CBMCD (Critical Big Mac Comsuming Distance) from the one at Cramlington. Perhaps the real reason why we haven't got one is they plan them so the litter belts don't reinforce each other?

So an obvious connection to the Iron Works just down the bank.

http://libdems4cameron.com/ Confused? You will be!

Mice have to get their take-aways somewhere! I mean did it look a particularly well fed, healthy, and discerning mouse?

Those knives seem to have yellow rosettes attached just at the moment! All in the *spirit* of political ballance of course! Come the next election whatsisname might just turn out to be the only survivor of the trio.

Update: Apparenty the payload is a new variant of the Sober worm which trys: "to disable antivirus programs and send copies of itself to any e-mail addresses found on the hard drive." Comes in three flavours: CIA, FBI and Paris Hilton. (Hotel or Bimbo?) Take care!

Earlier discussion on mice set me thinking how very long I've had my trusty optical Logi Mouse. Although it's still working just fine I decided to have a look at state-of-the-art rodents. Perusing the Logitech website I learned that "optical is obsolete" and that with a MX1000 my "computing experience will never be the same". Now, being a s-o-t-a sort of person, this was just too difficult a proposition to resist. Santa has therefore been instructed to gimme! Here (for your envy) are the links: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products...,CONTENTID=9043 http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products...GB/EN,CRID=2090 Warning: Do not all rush at once to replace your pathetically outdated optical mice with this curvaceous beastie - yes, even the many Bedlingtonians long known to have "tricky polished or wood-grain surfaces". The resulting laser display over Bedders could seriously detract from all those magnificent Christmas lights on the Front Street! BTW it is widely rumoured that this device actually started life as a design for a contactless, ever-sharp, electric razor - until the unfortunate series of accidents! So, it is not recommended that even the electric-razorless persons here continue to experiment with one along those lines, however appealing the convenience of a dual-usage mouse/razor may be.

The only real question is: Do you want to pick up a virus by executing the .ZIP file? And the concise answer to that is <Delete>!

_________________________________________________________ Dear Sir/Madam, we have logged your IP-address on more than 26 illegal Websites. Important: Please answer our questions! The list of questions are attached. Yours faithfully, Steven Allison ++++ Central Intelligence Agency -CIA- ++++ Office of Public Affairs ++++ Washington, D.C. 20505 ++++ phone: (703) 493-0706 ++++ 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., US Eastern time ____________________________________________________________ .ZIP file c/w payload attached - of course!

Hm... maybe those damn fireworks weren't quite so bad? http://members.cox.net/transam57/lights.wmv Neighbours from Hell?

You might want to post a (slightly more formal) version of this to the Public Notices section. There it won't get burried by other posts.

You may have seen the recent TV coverage about the Guide Post dental practice that's cutting its patient list from 6000 to 2500 and requiring local people to agree to pay £14 a month, plus a £10 joining fee. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4436160.stm Do you feel that local dentists are abusing their position, or do you think that the Government is letting us down badly? [Monthly poll results will be published on a web page which will be well indexed by the major search engines. We may selectively revisit subjects to see if there have been any significant shifts in public opinion]

Comment: This isn't working, but only 1 million of the 342 million end up on the ground outside of my door.

http://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/Bedlington_C13.htm I find the maps particularly interesting: http://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/007095FS.htm ..and scanned in sufficient detail to be really useful. Congratulations, and a great job lads and lasses!

I've posted some pix taken on Tuesday around 14:58 p.m. to the Gallery.