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Can only but agree. Great chap; at his house at Hotspur Avenue many times in the late 70's, and he was always hospitable. For the record he was responsible for building what is now the Music Shop on Front Street East, and I think had a bingo place at Newbiggin too. Seem to remember that it was near impossible to get them to say their house number, because it was in fact number ...!

Hungary the next candidate for meltdown it would appear, and they are "as mad as hell, and not going to take it!" - at least from the IMF. Back to Chairman Dave: Count the fairs - it's almost as if it were catching from Cleggie. Pity the "...." is Scotland and not the UK! Pity he's talking about a Scottish referendum in relation to independence, and not about a UK one in relation to independence from the EU. Double standards? Nnaaa.. politicians are always totally consistent - when it suits them!

Magic! This has to be the Glebe Road as I don't recognise the shop front at all. I should be able to guess at who some of the "youngsters" are, but the only one that I could be anywhere near is the lady with the dark blouse and white necklace under the 'O' in CARRY ON. If I had to guess I'd say it could be Sylvia Curley. There has to be a "Kit" - who was a real whiz with cycles - in there on the left. Date? Mid 1930's is the best I can hazard. Many thanks for posting a real bit of Bedlington history.

So, Dave does the right thing at the EU summit and refuses to sign the Let's all be German treaty. The other quisling "leaders" meekly go along with it and have the audacity to call us wreckers! The wrecking was done by politicos over a decade ago in adopting an unworkable and solely politically motivated arrangement. But should he get any credit for the stance? Well, no. That's because he is still ducking the referendum issue. Just because the slimy politicos are calling it an accord and not a treaty doesn't mean there hasn't been another fundamental change sneaked through. The Europe we are still part of is going the federal route at a rate of knots, and all the worst warnings of the skeptics are coming to pass. It's time to put the question to the British people. That question can only be do we want the EU to remain the free trade area we agreed to join (despite the hidden agenda of the Ted Heaths of this world), OR are we to become an outpost of the Fourth Reich? Our parents and their parents had a firm answer to this, and we'd do well to listen.

A gem! ...Mr Cameron said the UK would not agree to the transfer of any sovereignty from Westminster to Brussels as part of any future reforms to EU institutions aimed at protecting the single currency area from economic instability. ... Such a treaty was "not likely to happen" in the foreseeable future, Mr Cameron acknowledged. But... if it were to... (must be by March says Sarky, facing HIS voters), he will move the goalposts yet again to ensure that the British public doesn't get any say! What ever happened to the commitment that a treaty change would need a referendum, and - by all three leaders - that we'd have one "in the next parliament"? "The prime minister says he will seek to return powers to the UK at the right time..." We all know when the right time means in politico-speak - it means: sometime never, not on my watch, and isn't it great that the electorate has a short memory!

http://youtu.be/xBPmATZyEg8 http://crave.cnet.co...craft-50006299/

But it's not working any longer! http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/apple-beaten-in-us-court-over-samsung-ban-bid-50006330/ Guess the judge might be one of the burgeoning number of "droid" owners.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...litics-16029474 "Many MPs say this would alter relations with the EU and a referendum is needed. But Downing Street said it did not meet the test for a vote" QED!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067723/Middle-class-boy-set-robot-program-financial-advice-investors-pocketed-1-5m.html ...with a huge future starting as PPS to Ed Balls!

It would be an even sadder day if Bedlington didn't acknowledge the death of its friend, film director Ken Russell. Over the years quite a bit has appeared on this board about the making of Women in Love at Bedlington Station. His return in recent years to film a documentary about the cultural change in the area only cemented his bond with the Town. I believe this association started in the early days of TV with an assignment to produce a black and white documentary on the 1960 Miners' Picnic. There's plenty on the web to celebrate his life and career without repeating it here. But, the Town would like to say goodbye Ken, it was a great friendship - you brought a lot of pleasure to a lot of local people - you will be missed! http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-10701521

Going to be too hitty miss I think. Lots of SIMs are in a little metal cage and, as you point out, under the battery. Only way this could work predictably across all phones is if the phone manufacturers purposely fit the SIM near the plastic casing in an agreed area. And why would they? It's in their interests to keep control of NFC.and sell new phones with NFC as a feature, and not to restrict their design flexibility. Also this would make it difficult to use NFC to its full potential, because the phone's ROM really needs to directly support the NFC circuitry. The electrical interface for the SIM won't be optimal for large data transfers, or have any reverse access to the phone's own memory anyway. So, although it could prove useful for some things, it's obviously no substitute for a proper NFC equipped smart-phone. I think we are going to see a lot more multi-SIM phones too, and there's more complication for the idea!

Yes, there is a major difference. The soldier has signed up and subjected himself to military discipline. He has to do what he's ordered to do and put his life at certain risk. The flip-side of that contract is that the state agrees to do the best by him and his dependents. The 7am and "still drunk from the previous night" sounds a bit contrived, but taking that as a given there is criminal injuries compensation, also other state benefits available. Maybe the fact that someone can drive without third party insurance needs looking at, and a little imagination exercised at using modern technology to prevent this. But at the end of the day the state can only go so far in ensuring everyone's safety. There are always going to be murders and murderers, and no amount of rules, regulations, or retribution is going to dissuade some tiny percentage of the population from deliberate or reckless acts of endangerment.

And... in the case of the ECB... Chinese computer says no! And BTW... if we hear any more criticism of our human rights record from any of your citizens you'll be velie velie solie! Well... this thread should be enough to get BCOUK blocked by the great firewall of China - if it isn't already!

Samsung is only playing tit-for-tat. I don't think they've succeeded in stopping any Apple products being marketed, whereas Apple have stopped Samsung devices selling on the most ludicrous "look and feel" grounds. Apple has even gone to the extent of doctoring photos produced to European courts to make the Samsung tablet look more like theirs than it actually is. Samsung has also got to contend with obvious bias against far eastern products in western (and particularly in US) courts. So... this is the only way they can respond given the bent system. I guess the inclusion of Apple in this is only to give the illusion of balance. Granted the whole anachronistic patent thing is a nonsense and profoundly anti-consumer and anti-competitive. This particularly applies to software patents, which are a thinly disguised joke! A thorough overhaul is required, but this is surely not going to happen whilst American and European companies hold the upper hand.

Well... just for a few short hours someone thought they should. Or maybe they thought they needed to cover their back for the next decade or two of pain and unpopularity? But then, colleagues pointed out what a political blunder it always is to concede a referendum that could give an answer you don't want. All in "the cradle of democracy" too! "ideological flights of fancy" or simply raw power politics and "nation building" of the 1930's kind? If it's an ideology it's one Adolf H. would be now comfortable with: lebensraum without all the mess and inconvenience of physical blitzkrieg! Sarkozy the new Pétain; the LDs the new fifth columnists; a dozing British public... "if only we'd known what was really going on at the time!". Behind the 21st century cloak simply "a little bit of history repeating"?

Wow defo one that deserves hearty congratulations! If you are reading this in decades to come Autumn, please understand that it was not us who stole all the money you are working so hard to repay!

It's the one when you always promised the government were going to start giving you back a bit of all that tax you paid! And, when you get there, they've gone and spent it all! But you probably didn't want reminding about any of that. Sorry! Anyway, have a good day and don't count the calories!

He's 71, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Farlowe and she 66 going on 67, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Bell His website: http://www.simplyws.co.uk/chrisfarlowe/cfmain.html

I may be wrong on this but I think I remember being told that the road bridge was actually started (or intended to start) pre-war, and then abandoned due to the war effort. So if the 1961 date is correct - which I'm sure it must be - then it was an extraordinarily long time in the making, and the history goes back a fair bit more than 50 years. Construction would have been restarted in the Harold Macmillan, "You've never had it so good" era of post war, post rationing, post disastrous Labour government, prosperity. Even then the popular take was that we'd drawn the short straw once again, and were only getting a few long-overdue crumbs from the national table.

Gearing got us into this global mess, but it seems gearing will get us out of it! Too close fiscal union caused the euro's problems, but we are told the solution is ever-closer fiscal union! Computer says no! Has anyone asked the Greek people if they are prepared to suffer ten years of austerity in order to end up in the same debt position that Italy is in right at this moment? And that's assuming that there are no unforseens and that everything runs smoothly! At the moment the politicos can't even see ten weeks ahead let alone ten years! 50% is a default, but a default that's no good to anyone except a few banks which deserve to take a big hit! If you are going to default then the only sensible way is to default completely, and rapidly restart your economy in a state that gives it hope for the future. In the Greek case this must be outside the euro-zone - even a two-tone euro won't hack it in the Greek case. Silvio said a while back that he wouldn't seek re-election, and that he didn't want to be president either. Exactly what he's doing at the moment is anyone's guess, except maybe making a "dignified" exit on his own timescale. Anyway, he must be the only one that can't see that this isn't going to be possible. No one sane is going to get trampled in the rush to take his place either. What happens in Italy's case? Well not what needs to happen, but what has always happened: the official economy stumbles on - now funded by whoever - whilst the huge black economy maintains people's living standards. One day it may be different, but don't hold your breath!

Arriving at the truth in seventeen easy steps: Euro for Greece 'was a mistake' -- Nicolas Sarkozy, October 2011 Euro for...

To be a Lib Dem these days requires a lot of practice standing on your head. It also helps a lot if you've got a good grip on what you are currently offering on your websites. Well.. apparently last week they removed the page that asked you to petition for a referendum on our EU membership (though they couldn't erase the snapshots taken by the way back machine) in good time for voting against a referendum in the commons debate. Unfortunately they've completely missed the fact that they've still got a copy of their flyer on the matter still available for download! Confused? You will be!

http://en.wikipedia....onal_Fetish_Day I suppose that this time we must assume that he did due diligence and that it's not a repressed desire to wear the colour Purple! Cheers Ronnie!

Adam Holloway for PM! http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2011/october/25/mp_adam_holloway_quits_ministe.aspx One of the dumbest things Dave has done! He could easily have sidestepped this one. Also putting his constituents before his own career: http://www.stewartjackson.org.uk/ Maybe he learned something about popular democracy from his close brush in the expenses scandal! Anyway, this one is going to come back to haunt the Tories time and again. Shame on Miliband too; the fifteen or so Labour MPs who did the right thing by their constituents deserve a mention.