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I'm sure they actually meant to write vantage point, but you really can't expect a firm of highly paid architects to use propa English - like! http://www.thefreedictionary.com/vantage+point Massing and orientation is hoo them lot speak like. I mean if they said they thowt it was aboot the reet size an' pontin the reet way ordinary folks might not think they wa woorth the muney. And... to answer your AM I BEING TOO SCEPTICAL HERE question: Yes, you probably are. We have to grab at what is possible. It's a bit more new life in the old place. And, it's life that has to actually pass through/live in the town centre, and not jump into their cars and head directly for the A1 to get to/from work - plus do all their shopping at the Metro Centre. On the inconvenience: if you read the planning document you will find so many restrictions on what the builder has to/can't do it's a wonder any developer would even bother! You can't have it both ways: call the place "a ghost town" then object to any activity!

Ironic that the Co-op is foundering on the very thing it was set up to circumvent - self interest! Just like the Police Federation, the people at the helm won't accept change because it will impact on their own cushy existence. I didn't catch that Lord Myners has just joined the ever-increasing list of walk outs, but you don't really need to waste time seeking out his stated reasons. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/17/co-op-group-loses-billions-failings-in-management The Co-op can't survive in its present form, and no one seems interested in reconstituting it as a viable business. Flog off the bits, and when the dust has settled re-brand them - all that can be salvaged is some shaky jobs here and there! All the aspirations of the public-spirited Bedlingtonians in those sepia photos have now completely turned to dust.

..takes revenge on all motor cars! http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27058362 Sometimes we all feel like that!

Sorry, but that bit is nonsense! There are several reasons why a landlord wants to see a property occupied, and they are in no way insulated from market forces. But the quality of a tenant has to be taken into consideration too. Potential tenants who do all their homework have a much better chance of securing a better property; but few do, and you can't blame landlords for becoming jaded through hopeless propositions. Now Clive might not be the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, and he may not be the best business person in town, but he's not stupid. And, my point is going back at the right time - having done all the homework - will surely produce a deal. The property standing empty is costing him far more than the rates. I'm not aware of anyone in Bedlington who uses the occupancy rules simply to avoid business rates. It's generally asking for hassle, but if you spot any be sure to name and shame here. The sort of thing you mention is criminal, because the occupancy then attracts rates immediately, and if there is intention not to pay then that's fraud. Anyone who even offered such a "service" would be open to criminal charges, and any participating landlord would be complicit.

You need to select what site area you are searching on with the grey button before hitting the green search magnifier, else it will return too many results. One of the 2010 links I can spot: http://www.bedlingto...y-adjourned-r58

Ah, but think of all the parking fines, and the warden jobs so created! 39 more two-car families - goodness, why did that car showroom close?!

I do hope Cleggie caught this C5 program: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/469953/Gypsies-on-Benefits-and-Proud-Romanian-gypsy-aims-to-earn-40-000-on-UK-handouts Totally unrepresentative of all the hard-working Romanians and Bulgarians flocking to the UK as we speak, to mop up all those jobs no one here really wants - of course! Or maybe that's only the case in the fantasy world Mr Clegg lives in?

Everything is negotiable! Keep going back to them regularly and offering what you reckon is a fair rent. Hopefully you'll catch them at a time when the Council Tax / Insurance / Repair bill land, and they'll then see the merits of someone else having to pay them. Saying that it's THE prime position in the town won't help your case either. There are lots of good positions in the town and it really depends what for. If it's not let then clearly it isn't THE prime position in the town for anything, at the rent they are asking!

The Old Vicarage is actually Grade II listed. To quote from the English Heritage guy who surveyed it: "If I have to see yet another Grade II listed building I will scream." He meant, of course, that they were going through a phase when everything that was old enough was being listed without any consideration of merit. Not that there's anything wrong with the Old Vicarage; it's a fine building that was built without much consideration of the cost - because the church at that time was flush with funds from the sale of the Glebe Lands. It will certainly be standing long after the New Vicarage is bulldozed. But it's not representative of the town in the past, and indeed not even that old. Nor is it in any way unique in itself. That's recognised in the Grade II; preservation on the cheap, as no public money is available. There's no doubt that Grade II listings need to be reviewed. Either they should be marked as worthy of public money, or be released from most of the restrictions. Like the Old Vicarage most will survive anyway, because they still serve a purpose into the 21st century and beyond. The entire conservation area is a bit of a joke anyway, because just about everything that was worth conserving was vandalised by none other than the very people who should have at least preserved some of the better examples. Some of these had been flagged up in surveys paid for with public money before the vandalisation, yet these were ignored when politically convenient. Bedlington is still a working town, and a working town that has had the raw-end of many political stitch ups. It isn't a twee village in the stockbroker belt with sky high property values, and almost all of the historical treasures have gone for good. It now needs to be able to regenerate with as few shackles as possible. Getting rid of the odd derelict and decrepit building that has long had its day should be just a start. We've got an enviable central position and should be screaming out for this to recognised in regional government decisions, not squabbling over the odd pile of nondescript stones.

The "silly woman with the big lips" is in deep do-do economically and has failed to deliver on any promises. Cameron is trailing in the polls with an election looming. A mutually convenient increase in tension coming up? Better still a teensy "invasion" that everyone can save face retreating from without too many casualties. Cynical? Me?! Now where did I put that Union Jack? http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-26999735

Yup, the latest bout of alarmism from the IPCC surely illustrates that their case is crumbling. Even a courageous one of their number defecting (and putting his job at risk) on the grounds that the alarmism isn't at all warranted. There's no doubt a section of society that actually wills MMGW to be true. It suits their sense of "justice" and how things should be. It's religion for the irreligious. It ticks all the boxes in a belief-set that sees the present course of society and human development as misdirected. It's the same bunch of people who have got overworked about other issues in the past - nuclear disarmament - hole in the ozone layer - nuclear power - "globalisation" etc. They are essentially Stalinist in their misplaced concerns; anyone who disagrees must be a "class-enemy" and eliminated (sacked). Anything which points to the fact that they may be wrong must be suppressed. Quite a few of them in the Beeb I think. The present bunch buy heavily into Gaia theory - up to a point - but when its author says nuclear power is the only sane way to go they don't want to listen any further. That's because there's an irreconcilable conflict with another irrational thread. A lot of these extremely vocal and irrational people are in the green movement. Which is a shame, because it detracts from some of the more useful messages from that direction. Every religion has its admirable good intentions, together with followers who do great harm under the moral cloak so provided.

Curiouser and curiouser! Rather a lot of red faces if this report is true! http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mh370-hijacked-afghanistan-russian-intelligence-3407468

Well, I'm going to disagree here. It has been pretty much a waste of space for many years now, indeed unsafe! We can't preserve absolutely everything, and some things have to go to make way for the new. And.. it wasn't actually a church hall for a lot of the time I was around there. That's a use it assumed because there was little else to do with it. Let's preserve the things that are worth preserving, and don't let the bad decisions of the past - I'm referring to the council driven carnage of the place in the '60's - make us overreact when things have seen out their utility. Many things have gone which should have been preserved, but this certainly isn't one of them! So... nice to have known you Infants School / latter day Church Hall, but Bedlington needs a touch of "The Doctor". It needs to regenerate if it is to survive as other than a dormitory for other places. Places that have had a fairer deal! Presently, we need to grab whatever reasonable quality development we can attract. Excessive clinging to the past is a sure sign of decline. We owe it to the future, our children, and indeed our forefathers, to move on! I do hope I haven't stifled the debate here; are there actually any rational reasons why the development shouldn't go ahead?

The server for this website was recently patched... and all related company ones. Rotating passwords is always a good idea, but few people ever bother. You should focus on the sites where you use https: (the lock thing on your browser), and where cash is involved. The sheer scale of this is actually a bit reassuring, because criminals have so many potential targets the chances of an individual being victimised are small. And, if you are a Mac user, you've had no https: security for ages anyway (see my bit in the Computing forum), and only thought you had. It always pays to be paranoid though. So if you even have to think is this really necessary - just do it anyway!

http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/classifieds/item/102-samsung-galaxy-star-gt-s5280-smartphone/ -- I can do torms!

Well... would you believe it, the ONS has underestimated the number of immigrants over 2001-11 from "new EU countries" by a mere 350,000? How was this possible? Seems they only bothered to count the ones coming in to Gatwick or Heathrow and couldn't be arsed to find out how many they were waving through other airports. If they can't even COUNT the legal immigrants who present themselves under their very noses accurately how can they even start to estimate the illegals?! http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-26972597 Yes, Mr Clegg, you fool no one! The 27% of the audience who bought your crap should be told the facts, and not the pack of lies you peddle! You cherry pick from the official statistics, and even they are often based on partial, incomplete, and politically slanted information. Meanwhile Italy is inundated with boat people and simply can't cope. 4000 have been rescued over just the past few days. They will be given papers and released because there's nothing else the Italian state can do. Germany won't help a bit - not even money to protect borders - because they are well shielded and rely on cheap labour for their industry. Eu - big on Europe and very small on Union! Time to get out, and kill the nonsense and political junketing off for good! Eight billion pounds a year we can spend on fixing our own problems, and get rid of the economic drag that only benefits Germany. Job at risk? Yes, only those at the trough though!

I know one shouldn't prejudge these things but his performance in court really is worth one of his namesakes. At very very best he's a dangerous idiot; at worst he's as guilty as sin, and today's performance compounds it! Can you get away with murder in the RSA if you are famous enough? Well we all know that you can in the USofA, and from my short while there I'd say that you probably could have - if you were white! Today, I think maybe not.

This report from the Aussies is a lot more believable than the Chinese leads: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10748957/Malaysia-Airlines-MH370-authorities-very-close-to-finding-missing-plane.html The duration of the sounds and the likely gear being used lend it a lot more weight. Chances are now better than evens that the batteries will last long enough despite the low temperatures, but it will be a close run thing. Even so if this is not a false positive it will still have vastly narrowed the area of search, so that full recovery should be a matter of weeks and months, rather than years like the Air France plane. That deep the search effective search radius is shrunk even further. So, despite the excellent work a fair element of luck in this Aussie detection I think. Let's hope that luck holds!

Born: Joe Yule Jr., in Brooklyn, New York, 23 September 1920 Read more: http://www.filmreference.com/Actors-and-Actresses-Ro-Sc/Rooney-Mickey.html#ixzz2yClqtt7N Seems like he wrote the book Life's Too Short - in 1991! Another George Burns episode: if you want to see 100 years then don't write a book alluding to lifespan!

Not April 1st then? Someone should alert The Moos Quiz about this crime!

Somehow I think Milipede and Cameron are going to come up with any excuse to avoid any form of public debate with UKIP. Clegg did a tad better in the first debate as then he played it straight. Tonight he was quite transparently adopting carefully rehearsed tactics which didn't look at all genuine to anyone, let alone to the undecided. The result was he parted company with a lot of people who just might have bought his basic pro-EU message. In fact there were times he looked like an overgrown schoolboy who'd been caught out in a lie. The "Sitting Bull" thing fell completely flat. Whoever at LD central who came up with that juvenile stunt should be shown the door! Fit for the House of Commons maybe, but the British public were far more bemused at the behaviour of their Deputy PM than amused. Anyone who didn't know would surely have guessed that Farage was the deputy PM, and Clegg was the rank outsider. His days as LD leader must now be numbered! It's interesting that a full third of all declared LD voters polled thought Farage won. So, just when Clegg had calculated that he had nothing to lose - he did, and badly!

Quick, someone start a Facebeuk campaign to bring it to Bedders! A winning move, if ever I heard one.

I think any male with a hairdo like the younger guy on the extreme right would have been an object of extreme derision in 1958! I remember being mocked for having a rather nice, and quite modest, floral tie, not more than spitting distance form there right around that time! The location looks outside The (Old) Vicarage and the year must be in the 1960's. The lady to Harold's right would appear to be his wife Mary, who amazingly still seems to be going strong, having recently celebrated her 98th birthday. So... why doesn't someone ask her? Anyway on the quite sound basis that Labour leaders only came to Bedlington when an election was looming, and certainly not after they got elected, it's likely 1964, 1963, 1962, etc... in decreasing order of probability.

If this is true then there was no in-flight emergency, and the cause is entirely human intervention: http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/font-color-red-missing-mh370-font-pilot-i-established-contact-with-plane-1.503464#ixzz2xAMFgdac It's also curious that in the final transmission to Malaysian Area Radar the frequency of Ho Chi Minh wasn't read back. This had been done religiously on each earlier hand-off. It's almost as if there was already no intention to change to it, even more than ten minutes before this pilot says he established contact.

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