Malcolm Robinson

Wor lass keeping the rain off the bike.........

I did phone the Microsoft helpline...........

If no one else is going to........... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb2jib_remembrance-day_news

Tried that the other day, it took about 5 MINS to do the test! Tried last night, it took about 30 secs? Mornings used to be about the best time for speedy downloads now it seems evenings are?

GGG, I think it's even worse than that, I think it's about 'wealth' being transferred from West to East and us borrowing to maintain consumptive lifestyles. Why else would we see our debt rocket over a short period? We used debt to load up the economy at a time of what was supposed to be the peak part of the economic cycle. Private sector jobs and businesses should have been expanding but instead we saw a massive increase in the public sector which was used as a smoke screen to hide the real position. We shouldn't have had the 'boom' now we are probably passed the point of being able to get public finances back into any sort of order. All that public sector stuff carries its own fiscal toxicity and we only have to consider pension liabilities and PFI, when those chickens come home to roost, game over! 20-30 years ago we happily allowed outsourcing of jobs to places where wages were a bowel of rice a day. Now those workers want their own Mercs, 50 inch plasma's and home ownership. For a fiscal system to work there has to be a finite amount of available 'cash', taking this globally for every Chinese worker who buys a new car there has to be a corresponding drop somewhere else and that has to be over here. That is the equation we have indebted ourselves trying to square. Now we see the likes of China, and India to some extent, buying 'continuation of supply' in the likes of rare commodities and minerals and once they start to service their own domestic markets we will never be able to compete for raw materials so our already depleted manufacturing sector will become even more moribund. There is not one Western Government grasping the nettle, with the possible exception of Germany and their increasing trade using quality and performance. The rest are happily printing money, trying to hide debt and imposing austerity measures which will be detrimental to the economic activity needed to actually build our way out of the mess. I don't have the answers but I do know what is happening is wrong!

Been checking out this parking survey and it would seem Bedders is being classed as having as many tourists and visitors as Morpeth and Alnwick? Time we had a 'visit historic Bedlington' sign on the A1 then!

This is another fine mess you've got me into..........

Merc, What about the Bedlington punters going to the likes of the Snowy Owl, the Astley or the rest of the basic gastro pubs, there has to be quite a few? This isn't a boozer, it's not trying to attract that client base in fact I would hazard a guess it will discourage the big drinkers the other pubs rely on. It's clear off those internal pics that's not what they are after.

For anyone that missed this.......... http://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-trillion-pound-horror-story/4od#3139408

Hillbilly, I think there is a bit of photoshop going on with any and all projected images for the new Tesco's store. The entrance will be facing the car park not Front Street so the inside will be at that level. That's fine if they made a bit more effort with the door at the Front Street side, which looks like a 'normal' double glazed door to me. That now gives concerns about what happens when you walk into the store from the Front Street as there has to be quite a drop down to new floor level. It may all work out in the detailed planning of course I just hope it remains a 'portal' onto Front Street and not a Cul-de-Sac! I was told the Nettos workers were given their notices yesterday along with the Donkin ones?

Thanks merc, funnily enough when my friends had that trouble a week ago mine was unaffected? Last couple of days its snail mail early in the mornings? Takes ages just to load up e-mail never mind opening sites.

Monsta, Definitely not exceed bandwidth this month! Its back to normal now?????

Anyone else noticed a dramatic decline in their connection speed over the last few days? Is it the weather?

What's up at the window today........pint and a burger £4.99?

We can but live in hope!

Just a quick update.......... Looks like Ireland and probably Greece have entered the end game with defaults almost certain. Spain and Portugal next........ China will probably buy them.......

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Unbelievable!!!!!!!

I think the Red Lion will be a success, might have to quantify that and say an eventual success. I think Wetherspoons have deep enough pockets to get through what is going to be very hard times over the next few years and they may even face a rationalisation of their core costs, in other word staffing costs, but I think they are tilting at one of the most resilient markets within their sector. I firmly believe that it will impact onto other establishments and even just considering the wider economic picture locally that would happen with or without an upgraded Red Lion. That has been happening for the last few years anyway, putting a piranha into the goldfish bowel will result in disappearing goldfish!

Coming to a town near you...........

The link is to a 404 GGG.......I presume it is an ex presidential offering?

Looks like our future intelligencia have taken matters into their own hands........ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/8123194/Student-tuition-fee-protest-turns-violent-as-Tory-headquarters-evacuated.html

Its a........errr.....errr..... Done better, got someone else to join who will know what they are doing! Tried someone else too.

Its another snip at UK £351,931.......

Or even his apprentice………