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I wonder if everyone is missing the obvious here, and the name of our town is in fact derived from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede ? It's not as if we don't have very strong connections with Durham, and on the old maps we are marked as a tight enclosure of the Bishop's territory within Northumberland. ---------- -ling A diminutive modifier of nouns having either the physical sense of "a younger, smaller or inferior version of what is denoted by the original noun", or the derived sense indicating possession of or connection with a quality, which may having the sense of "a follower or resident of what is denoted by the stem form". (as an adverb) In the manner or direction indicated by the main stem (object.) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ling ---------- From Old Norse tún. Noun tun n (singular definite tunet, plural indefinite tun) (dated) an enclosed piece of ground ---------- So Bedeling-tun became contracted into Bedlington? Hardly a giant leap for an etymologist!

Just PM me and I will organise web space for you - either in the Gallery or as a stand-alone download (depending on the metrics). I can also do a video conversions from/to just about any regular format, so the download doesn't have to be restricted to the original encoding.

Only need a couple of sink plungers!

Great bit of work, and a useful addition to the Bedlington Gallery.

Ah, saved by the rider. For a few short seconds I thought you'd been reading the New Statesman again Sym. Not only did that PC mob fail to explain the Kraut thing in proper context, but they were trying to mark him down in history with the ultimate non-PC insult: a BNP "sympathiser". He was not! They've been forced to excise that particular slur. He was a patriot. Now that might be unfashionable, but it isn't illegal - quite yet! No worries on the "Yewtree" thing - I guess he'd likely be leading the "popular press" lynch mob, and advocating a rapid surgical solution.

Aren't you confusing the end of the World with "the end of boom and bust"? Can't fault Labour on that one though: no more boom, all bust!

Looks like your rush to judgement is going to be proven wrong on this one Symptoms. Not only does it appear that a plod has been caught impersonating a member of the public (a novel new offence for the statute book?), but the "peelers" who wrote up the definitive report on the incident didn't quite manage to "lose" the CCTV footage. The "shocked" mini-crowd they detail seems to have comprised the Invisible Man and all his invisible friends. So Mitchell's account of things is now looking a lot more like the unvarnished truth than that of the boys in blue. Sacking?! I think they are going to be put on attachment to the ravens for a good old while!

Is he any relation of the amazingly talented Ed Wood?

Are footballers paid far too much? Yes! Anyone disagree..... thought not! Close topic please Mr Moderator. P.S. To make our ordinary lives just a bit happier just think of the tax they pay - because their peak earnings are all loaded into a few years. Not much in the way of repeat fees for football matches.

He last compeered Treasure Hunt way back in the early 1980's I think. Happy days!

Nige, Terry Smith, and the Norwegian lady win hands down! The posh twits arguments - only Martin Sorrell I recognised - spouted all the usual you'll-be-sorry crap, but had nothing of substance to say. Their big foreign blond may have been fit, but she wasn't making a great deal of sense. Though far more sense than the Labour Party woman, a non-entity who would make even big-mouthed Mrs Balls look sage! Who was this third-rater, and is this really the best the Labour Party can do on such an important matter? If the Labour Party was pathetically indecisive and incoherent, then Boris, for the Tories, was showing his naked ambition - trying to backing both horses for max political gain and offering an easy target to Paxo. Cameron is a bit safer after this performance. The screened-in French female illustrated once again that they think even worse of us than we think of them, and seemed to be operating under the delusion that in mentioning Edward Heath (did she even get his name right?) she'd score brownie points with a UK audience. Exactly what the Train-spotting author guy was mumbling on his screened-in slots from far-away Scotland escaped me, but it seemed to be a-pox-on-all-your-houses you rich Southern scum. I think the lefty element at the Beeb had some input in the selection here, and the editors were hoping that he'd say something about what an independent Scotland would do when the UK finally gets a chance to say no. For a Scotland that has suddenly discovered its preference for the £UK over the Euro this was never going to happen - whoever they invited! Just a minute, there were absolutely no LDs on the program! Now there's a mystery!

Isn't that blackmail / misuse of office? And isn't that a criminal offence? It's a wonder that she didn't put emphasis on her surname, and that people who crossed her shouldn't go anywhere near the moors. Score one for the contention that government shouldn't be allowed anywhere near press regulation!

I think Patrick intended Chris Lintott take over, and certainly relied on him a lot since his stroke. There will surely be several others that will happily stand in for now, so little likelihood the program will end.

Bear in mind that a bare behind is what you'll find when you're in a bind 'cause you've been blind and the bear behind isn't terribly kind. All together! It's b-e-h-i-n-d you!!!

Yes you can! At least in clearer climes, and with budget (£10-20) binoculars too. They appear as tiny pinpoints of light - I saw at least three of them last year. Better than Google Sky Map is SkEye, and it's also a freebie. I've uninstalled the Google one as SkEye is so much better. It's aimed at people owning telescopes, as a star finder, but I find it pretty useful stand-alone. If you don't have a "droid" you are missing out on life, and budget or s/h smartphones are little more expensive than a better quality dumb phone.

Really? PM me a link please.

Pictures pictures! Post pix and shame them!

20 Duracells delivered to your door for free at less than 25p each. http://www.pcworld.c...pxmxaa&istBid=t Alert courtesy of Hot UK Deals. They are probably using the promo to build a mailing list or some sort of loyalty scheme, so don't be suckered into giving away all your details.

The Nexus is the only game in town now! Not worth paying the £178.29 discounted price the A110 is now being offered at.

As Brett says, it all depends! I go for the Acer at the present £130 price, because I will be moving it on with a year anyway and will probably recover most if not all of what I pay at that price. Also I want to connect it to the TV to watch iPlayer stuff and otherwise exploit the great video - you can't do that with the Nexus. Also if you buy the £159 Nexus you may be left wishing you'd bought the 32GB one for £40 extra. You won't be in that position with the Acer as it takes a microSD too, and they are cheap as chips these days. On the other hand the Nexus has a bit better screen (but the sound is not as good as the Acer). I do prefer the form factor of the Nexus, but it really depends how you hold them. If extreme battery life is what you are after go for the Nexus, but the Acer isn't bad in this respect. Anyway if you want an Acer you'd better be sharp as the are now showing only 12 left! They may or may not get more "cash back" stock. If I hadn't already bought I'd be waiting for the 3G version of the Nexus, to come available again, it was showing restocking when I last looked, but even at the present lower prices that's a whole £110 more than I'm paying! Actually these little powerhouses offer far more than the Kindle Fire, which hasn't even got GPS, and isn't a quad core. You even have to pay extra to get rid of the ads on the Fire, and the inconvenience doesn't end there!

It was £185,000 plus his legal bills - so in fact a lot more. Knowing just a little bit about Lord McA I'd say that he's likely worth a lot more than that. In any event he'll likely give the Beeb cash to charity himself. If the BBC hadn't settled they'd have been in for a lot more; there was more to it than simply not naming him on air. So, it was a pragmatic decision - having been sucked into the mess in the first place. The DG matter is entirely different, and yes, I have to agree with you. Far too many senior executives are insulated from the consequences of their own actions, unlike us mere mortals. In this case GE was already an insider prior to the appointment, so there's very little excuse that he didn't know the lie of the land. Few people resign of their own accord for "honourable reasons" these days, they are invariably pushed. If he wasn't to blame he should have pushed back, and if he was then Patton should never have agreed to the pay-off! As things stand everyone is left wondering, and this hasn't done the Beeb any good either.

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You mean you aren't using the MyChooChoos app to control yours by bluetooth? Kinda sounds like you're back in the steam age!

So you weren't being serious then?! I've never even considered a 10" tab - simply too big, and when you are getting to that sort of size a modern slim netbook will deliver a lot more power for much less money. Was very tempted by the new Chromebook at £199, but I don't think that cloud computing would do things for me. Have had a convertible touch screen netbook, but it was actually heavier than the current powerhouse laptop - haven't had a desktop for almost a decade now - and it's true, W7 just isn't up to 100% touch screen use! It turned out just a rather slow and heavy notebook with occasional touch screen convenience, and was seldom if ever used with the screen flipped. I've noticed that friends owning 7" devices often have them, but after an initial outing or two people with the iPad mostly leave them at home. Have found myself perfectly happy with a phone enabled 7 incher instead of a phone, and that's been true over the course of several months. But lots of 3G 7 inchers are data only (like the 3G Nexus), which seems dumb when you have all the electronics to make/take a call. This has confirmed my prejudice against large tabs, and the feelings that Steve Jobs was quite wrong on the size thing. In previous years I've been through the entire series of Nokia internet tablets - yes, folks Apple did not invent the tablet! - and they really were too small to be hugely convenient, though quite nice in the pre-touch-smartphone era. So... after lots of devices under the bridge, 7" seems to be about right, though I'm still not sure that devices bordering on 8" would be. You mention the price difference, and I'm sure you are right. Smaller tabs contain the same electronics and software, so larger ones shouldn't be that much more expensive. Thirty, forty, or even fifty pounds maybe, but not three figures more. Like notebooks I'd pay a good price premium for a smaller one if need be, but it turns out that for this category of devices, (and with production volumes being equal,) smaller ones are cheaper to manufacture. That's just another reason why 9 or 10 inchers will become very much a minority buy once Apple have stopped dictating to the market. Yup, the Note is nice. But it's a large smartphone and not a smaller tab. i.e. it's a 100% replacement for a "regular" smartphone but won't replace a computer screen.

Did this run on the Atari? Think I sort of remember it at the NEC Birmingham when it was first released. I'm not a gamer but remember being most impressed by the 3D wire-frame stuff!