Malcolm Robinson

Any Euroland pundits out there who have an opinion on Greece and the EU?

Hmmmmmmmm,

Rea, I think there is another equally valid point at stake here. For the last 30 odd years we have been told we didn't need a sports facility because there were several within a short distance either by car or bus. Well if the population of Bedlingtonshire has for the first time overtaken the population of the Ashington area in terms of numbers then if a new sports centre is needed why not build it here? Same reasoning would apply wouldn't it? H, I can symphonise with your view H but like all good conundrums there are other salient points to consider. Those being the development is slap bang in the middle of a supposed conservation area, there are already issues with vehicular access to and from Church lane, the church itself has problems of access now especially at times of weddings and funerals and there seems overwhelming opposition towards this development within the community, given the building which will be lost. Anyone supporting this development at the last Town Council meeting would have been stoned!

Oh dear.......... http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100210/tod-arab-envoy-finds-wife-to-be-bearded-739a30c.html

I think we would get pretty short odds on the community centre at the moment! There are another 3-4 which might attract very slightly better odds! The only one missed off the list is the Bank Top isn't it?

There is possibly a clue on the boards adorning some of these establishments! It would seem the breweries have lost their little enough grasp on realties and imposed massive rent hikes.

Seems a bit more complicated than that............ In 1995 the Company was acquired by Lyonnaise des Eaux for £823m.[3]. In 2003 Suez, who had acquired Lyonnaise des Eaux, sold 75% of Northumbrian Water to a Consortium of private investors.[4] The Company was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2003.[5] NWG's present Chairman is Sir Derek Wanless. Sir Derek is the former 'ousted' CEO of NatWest Bank, and a former Non-Executive Director (and Chairman of Risk Committee) at the Northern Rock Bank.[6] Suez........http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=102498

Mr D's list is starting to look like a dead pool list these days. Might be more apt to wager on which one will close next!

Perhaps holidaying on a Russian oligarch's motor launch or having the use of someone's villa might be considered along the same lines?

Ah ha the great T Dan....... the man who almost single handily cleared the worst of the ghettos out of Newcastle. Ok he might have had his hands in the till but if he was of a different political party and based in London he almost certainly would have been knighted not imprisoned! Funny how sanctimonious the working class can be in treatment of their own!

Perhaps an unfortunate use of words considering the predilections of some of our elected representatives!

I don't think you are too far away there Monsta! I think sitting and prospective main party candidates might just get a spanking this time!

How come it takes 2 quarters of negative figures to go into recession but only one to come out of it?????????????????? After all that intervention and we see 0.1%.....good use of money?

In that case someone need a lesson in basic grammar.........never end a sentence with a conjunctive!

Still not really GGG, I get PDF's all the time and I have had to get the conversion program so I can convert into word and use the information myself. If you can set a link to print out say a booking form or airline tickets why can't the same thing be done for a poster? Ignorance is bliss..........

GGG, I am starting to get worried about the real state this country is in. The most important, in economic/financial terms, election almost in living memory and what do we have to choose from? I don't think any of them have a clue! The country's bankrupt and the footsie and domestic house prices rise????? They have certainly not bottomed out far enough to take the pain needed and get back to reality. In fact I would argue they would have to go way down past sustainability before they bounce back to reality! The estate agents and bankers I talk to all talk about when we get back to the top of the market prices........knock knock is anyone in.......does no one realise they are talking about rolling more debt up onto an already unstable 1 trillion pounds worth? The accountants took over the world decades ago and we have let them play with their numbers. We should have put them in play pens and kept watch over them! What is needed are politicians with some backbone and belief. Backbone to stick to what they tell us they will do if elected and belief in whatever political system they say they belong to. Without that we are drifting and the 'correction' will be that much harder when it comes.

hello malcom i hope you are from bedlington . i am an x bedlington man .i moved to blyth 40 years ago ihave read some posts about gallagers park on your forum cant remember where it is .could you tell me where it is situated please. thanking you . This what you are after bed............? http://friendsofgallagherpark.ning.com/ Your not going to say you have a dieing aunty or you need to move money out of an account in Blyth are you????

Mine opens fine??????? Are there just 2 pages? The bottom of page 2 left hand side, would seem to suggest there should be more to that paragraph?

Mr D, have you heard of 'turnover per square foot', it's the holy grail of this sort of company. Everything which is stocked is stacked up against this criteria, every stock item has to justify its shelf space. On top of that everything you see, smell and even the ambience you feel inside a hypermarket these days is carefully measured and implanted. I would guess there is someone deep in the bowels of Tesco Towers who has a graph showing projected footfall and turnover for a Bedlington superstore and it must be showing a marginal case for development. Considering current government intervention on out of town retailing, high street impact, etc the only way this company can grow organically and domestically is to develop these marginal sites. If you think a small delegation of our population can have any influence whatsoever over these business principles.......................

Merc, That is quite a pessimistic statement isn't it? If we are talking post industrial revolution I would have thought a lot of the pollution was caused by ignorance and fiscal need, both areas where we could make change. I don't believe we are endemic polluters by genetic design! For me the real problem on the horizon is population growth, which might just be sustainable present day but will soon tip over the edge, if it hasn't already. Given that the mature western economies have, by and large, population demographics which show almost stagnation if not reduction in their figures (financial pressure on lifestyle probably) then it follows that the third world and emerging countries have population explosions as they frantically follow our patterns of industrial development leading to even greater and completely unsustainable pollution.

I'm with Monsta on this one. Ok the climatologists might have their own agendas but without a shadow of a doubt we have polluted this planet, possibly beyond repair, and we should be doing something about it.

You wanting the pooper scooper rights Monsta?

It may well be to do with the gravitational matrix we are entering into with our celestial alignment around winter solstice 2012, as the Mayans predicated. Whole new ball game, anyone want to fund my research a couple of million dollars will do it?

Not really, NCC put on the pre-Xmas stuff there but was never going to keep it up. The town council was talking about maybe putting stuff on there as is the Bedlington Partnership so you never know......

No but we are going to have to do future 'events' there ourselves.