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Someone else who doesn't read the "small print" at the bottom? Didn't say Avast was best, said one of the very best. I wouldn't presume to make that choice, except that when something is free then at least it's worth a try before parting with money. Speaking personally I've installed Avast on dozens of machines, many for other peeps, and no one (except someone here) has had anything but praise for it. I've used it myself for several years across at least half a dozen machines. By contrast I've found Norton an absolute pain to use, and the first thing I do with a new machine is try to get rid of any "free" bundled Symantec products - this is not always easy! And, the free version of malwarebytes has always done a good job, so why part with money on that too? Another free product you should look at is CCleaner to remove unnecessary clutter, and free up disk space. Now someone here had a disagreement about that a while long back but what they said was totally contrary to my own long experience. It has never screwed up a machine that I've used it on and I've been using it regularly on many machines for at least a decade. It's only sensible to save the registry entries it removes just in case, but I can't remember ever having to restore the saved entries. If I had to pay for CCleaner I would, but once again the free version does all the job you need to do, and does it well. The only irritation is the constant updates, with always the default option to upgrade to the paid-for version, but at least the product is being constantly improved and updated. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

So I win the bet then? Why on earth would you pay for an AV when one of the very best is completely free?! http://www.avast.com/en-gb/index

So... the icebreaker that was to rescue the stuck Russian ship is stuck in the Antarctic ice! This brings to mind the news that there's a massive 50% more ice in the Arctic this Summer than last. If you remember last year we were told it was global warming surely to blame; this year the "excess ice" is simply normal seasonal variation. The same instantly variable spin which differentiates climate from weather I think! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25383373 Climate Change: A terribly important, yet elusive, phenomenon that warrants countless billions of others people's money being spent on wholly ineffective and vain attempts to influence nature. But, once a minuscule proportion of those costs are billed to the concerned party, instantly reduces in importance, and becomes a gross imposition.

Didn't you miss the second one? And what's wrong with simply right clicking on (an unoccupied place on) the taskbar? You should leave CTL+ALT+DEL as one of the last resorts, because with many operating systems it won't pop up any sort of dialogue and you will lose your entire session - something you don't want to get into the habit of doing! Even with Windows an accidental second keying could spell disaster. Malwarebytes is a useful addition to your regular AV program. It often picks up stuff that's not necessarily a virus but has been sneaked on to your system. My bet is that it will find something on your machine, and that won't be false positives aimed at selling you the paid-for version!

http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/Take-action/Find-a-grant/Green-Deal-and-ECO Or as Gordo would certainly tell you, it's a global problem: Why is Germany so expensive? Well the idiots have turned their backs on nuclear because of their tree-hugger lobby - Germans are always easily sold on crazy ideologies! Things will only get worse there as they progressively bottle themselves in, whilst their neighbours gleefully build new nuclear stations on their borders to profit from their stupidity. Why are we currently in trouble on supply? Well... a certain former government couldn't make its mind up on nuclear and didn't put the ground work in place, so we have lost a decade! Mind you the current lot have been slow off the mark, and it's only the stark prospect of the lights going out real soon that has actually got them off their backsides! The net result of the political muddle is we are having to pay far more for nuclear than would have been the case if Teflon Tony had made a timely commitment. The results of the politician's failures will be felt for decades to come, long after the true reasons are forgotten. Note the relatively low cost of electricity in Paris where governments of all political shades have been firmly focussed on just getting on with it. We can thank the French for their foresight, and their supplying us under the Channel. Without the connector we'd be in a lot more trouble than we already are. But... In other words the French are eyeing the higher prices Germans will pay for peak demand availability, and we are in danger of loosing another 5% of our supply. We can only hope they plough on with their nuclear program apace.

It's growing rapidly in the UK apparently, but never used it myself. Just wondering if anyone had any experience of other auction/fixed-price sites? http://uk.ebid.net/ eBay really does need serious competition, they are far too greedy, dictatorial, and service levels are near non-existent.

And.. for the record I'm wrong again - that almost certainly isn't Molly Hattersley holding Roy's hand either!

Great stuff! Well everyone has the year of the shiny new tarmac wrong then, I will put a note on the ones in the gallery. Your 1987 one looks like the tarmac has had a year's run-in then, so it's all consistent. There's that lass with the massive box brownie on her right shoulder again too! Gave up filming picnics myself round about 1958, that colour film is still around here somewhere and has never had a public show. Hope to locate it real soon!

That tome of all wisdom about Bedlington - bedlington.co.uk - says these pictures are actually 1980: http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/gallery/sizes/897-1980-miners-picnic/large/ Which means the County Records Office is only 8 years out in its guess! http://www3.northumberland.gov.uk/catalogue/dserve.exe?dsqServer=w2k3calm1.woodhorn.org.uk&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27roy%27%29&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=2

Maggie is right, up front there is ex deputy Labour leader Roy Hattersley. With him is presumably his wife (Edith aka Molly) who he divorced this April shortly before he remarried. So yes, he's still going strong at 81! A couple of trade unionists I half-recognise, particularly the old short guy in the black jacket and glasses on camera left. Going to need to research those - you know how well I relate to trade unionists!

LOL I was intending to take this temporary thread down, but now you'll scream censorship! Re-titled it.

http://www.bedlington.co.uk/news/_/news/breaking-news-r178

You can't hurry a White Christmas. Next you'll be asking for Bing Crosby!

Sounds like he may have knocked the Luxury out of "Bedlington Luxury Coaches".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/

I heard a rumour that they are going to scrap that Prestel clone and get the Internet real soon - mais non?

Brilliant! And, judging by the coats and scarves, it certainly wasn't the Summer of 1972 either.

Ah, so it is in that shot! Good find! What would be of far more general use it to know exactly when the (dangerous) concrete lampposts went. This has general implications for dating many Gallery photos.

Late 60's I'd guess, but it may have been 1970's. Can anyone make it out from this shot? http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/gallery/image/1643-front-street-1970/ It was certainly on the little central island in the mid to late 50's. This one looks early 1960's to me: http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/gallery/image/1573-the-lion/ Should have paid more attention myself! The Gallery will surely give more clues.

So old Rupy thinks Tony has been behaving less than honourably with his Chinese wife? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/10470792/Rupert-Murdoch-in-rift-with-Tony-Blair-over-claims-of-multiple-encounters-with-ex-wife-Wendi-Deng.html Another WMD crisis then Tone? (Wendi Murdoch Divorce). You really couldn't make any of this up!

Try this one (it's quick), and please report back here to other members, particularly if you save significant money: www.energyhelpline.com Know a better price comparison website that covers suppliers in our area? Then don't keep it to yourself!

Sorry to be a tad pedantic but it was Friday 22nd November. If you have a problem editing the title I can do it for you - just PM me. I was at Glendale or Avondale, Kity Brewster when someone opened the door to me quite stony-faced saying they'd just heard he'd been shot, but I think that a couple of people at East Hartford confirmed that it was fatal about half an hour later. Not sure precisely what I was thinking between the two; I've a feeling of being confused and upset going along past Horton Church.

If Miliband or Balls had a scrap of evidence of overcharges they'd produce it. They don't because they can't! It's far easier to use the usual "politics of envy" ploy that Labour always uses - you know, tax cuts for millionaires and all that crap - than tell the truth and put up a reasoned argument. In fact the regulator is doing his job, and although more real competition is needed, the market is reasonably fair to customers considering the degree of political meddling. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/9878281/Ofgem-boss-warns-of-higher-energy-prices-in-supply-roller-coaster.html If Labour hadn't messed on for so long changing its mind on nuclear and back again to suit various factions in the party we'd have some relief coming up over the next few years. Now it's going to take a whole ten years to get some decent nuclear capacity. Granted the coalition could have been a lot quicker, but by the time they got elected suppliers were hard to find and they were over a barrel on pricing. Only 6.5 out of 10 for the Con/Lab actions so far though. You can't simply say that spot prices this year have only gone up < 2% because suppliers hedge often by negotiating years in advance, and contracts end. There are many other factors in getting energy to your door too; networking and infrastructure costs represent quite a large proportion of them. If there were distribution failures then politicians would be screaming "underinvestment". What we have though is very tight supply due to lack of proper energy policy over the last decade or more. It's often necessary to take/make expensive supplies just to keep the wheels turning. More capacity will come but it will take time, though if Miliband has his daft way in capping prices this will only have the opposite effect long-term. Less capacity will inevitably be built and we'll be back in Labour's la-la world where people work without any incentive, yet his vote-buying give away will be still be recovered after the cap ends. One thing we will readily agree about is that coal fired stations should not have been shut down when they were. And there you get back to the green lunacy, which is the reason for most of the current pain.

Many thanks to fourgee for tonight's work on upgrading the software. There are many improvements and fixes, but you'll mainly notice this in the Gallery software which has had a major revamp. Amongst other things the geo-tagging now works properly. So, given half a chance, cameras and smartphones that have GPS should flag the location of your shot on the map. He put in a lot of work fixing problems that had gone unnoticed (like bitmap photos being uploaded with a .jpg file extension!) so it was more than a simple upgrade. You may also find some photos that weren't displaying before, due to a null category being selected for them at upload time. All member's suggestions for reorganising the Gallery will be carefully considered. Our regular posters will appreciate the fixes to annoying bugs in the text editor. Please report any other problems you spot and we will have them attended to.