Malcolm Robinson

Lets see if this works.....

And I believe we only had one crack at that and when the question was asked it wasn't even put to the public? Also is it not the Boundary Commission who sets the boundaries? WDC suggested them at LGR. If we did have one council...... immediate saving..........2/3rds of the current staffing and overheads for 3 offices or over £100K to invest into things people actually want instead of loading up on bureaucracy!

A couple were lying in bed together on the morning of their tenth wedding anniversary when the wife says, 'Darling, as this is such a special occasion, I think that it is time I made a confession: Before we were married I was a hooker for eight years.' The husband ponders for a moment and then looks into his wife's eyes and says, 'My love, you have been a perfect wife for ten years! I cannot hold your past against you, maybe you could show me a few tricks of the trade and spice up our sex life a bit?' She said, 'I don't think you understand, my name was Brian and I played rugby for Wales . . .'

You mean the way Ashington was allowed to set up.........a single council which has a decent amount of funding. The boundaries were set here by the actions of a certain group and as they are on this board I will allow them to explain to everyone why they did that.........

hey.......take a chill pill dad-y-o.... Took notice when I drove up past the Black Bridge today...........the whole lot is going to seed. (Bit like us really!)

Keith, Did you say its full of weeds or full of weed............man????

More invasion of privacy? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/powers-snoop-emails-calls-001428188.html

There are one or two flashes of intelligence displayed at Brussels.................

Baldrick: "What I want to know, Sir is, before there was a Euro there were lots of different types of money that different people used. And now there's only one type of money that the foreign people use. And what I want to know is, how did we get from one state of affairs to the other state of affairs" Blackadder: "Baldrick. Do you mean, how did the Euro start?" Baldrick: "Yes Sir" Blackadder: "Well, you see Baldrick, back in the 1980s there were many different countries all running their own finances and using different types of money. On one side you had the major economies of France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, and on the other, the weaker nations of Spain, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal. They got together and decided that it would be much easier for everyone if they could all use the same money, have one Central Bank, and belong to one large club where everyone would be happy. This meant that there could never be a situation whereby financial meltdown would lead to social unrest, wars and crises". Baldrick: "But this is sort of a crisis, isn't it Sir?". Blackadder: "That's right Baldrick. You see, there was only one slight flaw with the plan". Baldrick: "What was that then, Sir?" Blackadder: "It was !*!@# ".

I never knew of one word in the English language that could be a noun, verb, adj, adv, prep: - UP Read until the end ... you'll laugh. This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is UP.' It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v]. It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election (if there is a tie, it is a toss UP) and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends, brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car. At other times, this little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special. And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is blocked UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look UP the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with (UP to) a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out, we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it soaks UP the earth. When it does not rain for a while, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now . . . my time is UP! Oh . . . one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night? U P! Did that one crack you UP? Now I'll shut UP.

Actually Hardy this has been highlighted at various NCC Area meetings since early last year when the cycle crossing was supposed to replace the lollipop man (lady now) opposite the St Bennie's entrance. Merlin submitted a petition last year and Adam's dad has just submitted another one. The Forum fights to keep this on top of the in box list of 'things to do' for NCC. Even the Police have noted their unhappiness with the present arrangement. There are lots of associated problems which is why a simple solution has never been forthcoming but that's not really our (the community's) problem. The Forum is and will always be concerned with the safety of our children going to and from whichever school and really monetary considerations should be secondary to that! I will mention one gem of an answer NCC gave to a recent question. We spoke about how buses have to either cut the footpath or cross into incoming traffic to make the turn and as larger buses are going to be using this entrance that problem must get worse. Adam's old man actually saw a near miss there and that prompted him to look into turning circles of buses etc. so we now have all the necessary technical information to back up our claims. One possible answer suggested by NCC was to put a post on the footpath to protect pedestrians. I suggested putting it on the corner and a nice big one, well concreted in, at that. NCC said they couldn't do that because the buses couldn't make the turn if they did. Which in my jaundiced view means NCC are well aware the buses regularly go over the footpath when turning in and so jeopardise pedestrian safety!

No not really..............weight gains a problem mind!

Still off the fags Keith? I stopped on Budget Day this year.......£7.50 a packet no thanks!

Watch BBC1 Friday evening Mobius. I am doing my best to get the crest highlighted! It should now be part of the Bedlington Torch Parade.

thanks Mobius, I do now have the original plates for the coat of arms BUDC bought! Don't know why you couldn't find them in something like civic heraldry?????? (I couldn't either when I was looking for them!) I know these are the real things I got them off one of the guys who did the original purchase!

Yes........no.....??????? Tesco added that it saw its biggest ever week outside of a Christmas period in the run-up to the four-day Queen's Diamond Jubilee holiday weekend, with over 1 billion pounds in sales. That will be included in second-quarter results. "At this early stage of the year we are performing in line with market expectations for the group. The outlook for the year as a whole remains unchanged," it added. In April Chief Executive Phil Clarke, a Tesco career lifer who as a youth stacked shelves in his local store, slashed expansion plans for the retailer's main British chain and said he would spend over 1 billion pounds on improving stores and online shopping in a bid to reverse the decline in market share. He said the UK business needed more staff, smarter stores, lower prices and better products after becoming too focused on cutting costs and boosting profit margins. But he did not give a timetable for the plan to deliver better sales.

So Spain gets a banking bailout but let's not call it that. Italian production figures are down the pan which can only mean an even worse balance of payments, Greece is a basket case with the Jackboot firmly on the necks of the indigenous populace and even Germany might see a bank run soon…….. Time for some light relief………….

She might have been the country's little darling at one time but the lass can't hold a note! Soft song probably picked for her limited vocal rage and she still blew it!

Just for you Cannylass............quite a saucy song if you listen to the lyrics! If I can get everything sorted in time this should have an outing next Friday!

That wasn't Mr Humphries Adam................

Not sure if its slave labour but its something................ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/investigation-launched-after-unpaid-river-pageant-workers-forced-to-sleep-under-london-bridge-7817755.html

As soon as is possible Canny lass..........

Yes Adam and your old man's is one of them! That's the price of giving away editorial control......ask John. When you get big hitters like the BBC in it is almost impossible to get them to do things the way you want, rather they do it their own way. All you can do is try and make sure everything they get gives the sort of impression you want to convey and cross your fingers it doesn't all end up on the cutting room floor!

Well done Louisa, Kieran and Jared. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolreport/18303251