Malcolm Robinson

One further point which might be worth considering, if the pubs are clamping because cars are parked on their private spaces does that mean they are responsible for any damage etc done to the cars when parked whilst owners are imbibing in their establishments?

Don't know about false promises missdarn but the roport I read said WDC would be the majority shareholder in the new company which is to take over their housing stock? Looks like Denzel has hit the nail on the head as it must be the handover which enables them to apply for grant funding. Would a rose by any other name.........

Pete, I can understand why some cities have pedestrian only roads but Bedlington is not one of them. It needs to retain a commercial heart to survive and as most people use their cars when shopping, and will not walk the few yards from very adaquet parking at the back of the buildings, there has to be some recognition of these shopping habits. It did seem a pretty straightforward solution to put in some chevron parking on one side of the street. The trouble with Front Street development seems to be the ad hoc way it has been assessed over the years. Each trench of improvements has been done by itself as a stand alone excersise and not as some intigrated plan for the whole area. This will always present its own problems as the Front Street is so long.

Point of order missvic, WDC have always wanted to pedestrianise Front Steet at least from the Market place up over but it meant cars having to drive though the likes of Windsor Gardens etc. One epic plan was to put a new road in adjacent to the golf course on the grassy area until it was realsied that was not allowed by the covernents on that land! As for the double yellows on Front Street, they were painted in over the course of a Sunday night! Shopkeepers arrived back at their shops on Monday morning to find they had no access or parking facilities. When WDC were tackled about the underhand way this had occured their responce was that 50 people, supposedly members of the public, had requested the double yellows over a course of time and that was all that was needed to make it happen? Some form of temporary parking needs to be brought in to breath some life into the street but all the cries from the COT went unheard even though a petition was raised with 10 TIMES that amount of people signing it! WDC blamed the County and the County said it was down to WDC!

Here is the full list Dave; Aragones - Goyosa Nadal y millor año nuebo Asturian - bon Nadal y feliz añu nuevu Basque - zorionak eta urte berri on Bolognese - bån Nadèl e un ân nôv pén ed felizitè Brazilian Portuguese - feliz natal e um feliz ano novo Bresciano - bon Nedal e bu an nof Breton - Nedeleg laouen ha bloavezh mat Calabrese - buonu Natali e filici annu nuovu Cornish - Nadelik lowen ha blydhen nowydh da Croatian - cestit Božic i sretna nova godina Danish - glædelig jul og godt nytår Dutch - prettige kerstdagen en een gelukkig nieuwjaar English - merry Christmas and a happy New Year Esperanto - felican Kristnaskon kaj prosperan Novjaron Estonian - häid Jõule ja õnnelikku uut aastat Ferrarese - auguri'd bon Nadal e bon an nòv Flemish - zalig Kerstmis en gelukkig Nieuwjaar French - joyeux Noël et bonne année Furlan - bon Nadâl e bon an gnûf Galician - bo Nadal e próspero aninovo German - frohe Weihnachten und ein schönes neues Jahr Griko Salentino - Kalò Kristù ce na chrono nèo comào 'zze charà Hungarian - békés karácsonyt és boldog új évet Italian - buon Natale e felice anno nuovo Judeo Spanish - Noel alegre i felis anyo muevo Latin - Natale hilare et annum faustum Leonese - Bon Nadal y Prestosu Añu Nuevu Limburgian - ne zaolige Kiësmes, e gelèkkig Nauwjoër, ên al wo wènselek ès! Mantuan - bon Nadal e bon an Mapunzugun - ayüwün-ngechi lleqün antü ka küpalechi we tripantu Mudnés - bòun Nadêl e bòun ân Neapolitan - buonu Natale e felice nuov'anno Norwegian - god Jul og godt nyttår Papiamentu - Bon Pasku i Felis Aña Nobo Parmigiano - bon Nadèl e dla felicitè par al an nòv Piemontese - Bon Natal e Bon Ann neuv Polish - Wesolych Swiat i szczesliwego Nowego Roku Portuguese - bom Natal e feliz Ano Novo Rapanui - koa ite navidad ote mata hiti api Romagnolo - bon Nadél e feliz 'an nov Sicilian - bon Natali e filici annu novu Spanish - feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo Swedish - god jul och gott nytt år Umbro-Sabino - bon Natale e fecunnu annu nòu Venetian - Bon Nadal e Bon Ano Nóvo Welsh - Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda Zeneize - bon Denâ e feliçe anno neuo Wishing everyone a good 2007!

For something to do between courses can anyone put the appropriate country to the greeting/ Merry Christmas and a happy New Year - Goyosa Nadal y millor año nuebo - bon Nadal y feliz añu nuevu - zorionak eta urte berri on - bån Nadèl e un ân nôv pén ed felizitè - feliz natal e um feliz ano novo - bon Nedal e bu an nof - Nedeleg laouen ha bloavezh mat - buonu Natali e filici annu nuovu - Nadelik lowen ha blydhen nowydh da - cestit Božic i sretna nova godina - glædelig jul og godt nytår - prettige kerstdagen en een gelukkig nieuwjaar - merry Christmas and a happy New Year - felican Kristnaskon kaj prosperan Novjaron - häid Jõule ja õnnelikku uut aastat - auguri'd bon Nadal e bon an nòv - zalig Kerstmis en gelukkig Nieuwjaar - joyeux Noël et bonne année - bon Nadâl e bon an gnûf - bo Nadal e próspero aninovo - frohe Weihnachten und ein schönes neues Jahr - Kalò Kristù ce na chrono nèo comào 'zze charà - békés karácsonyt és boldog új évet - buon Natale e felice anno nuovo - Noel alegre i felis anyo muevo - Natale hilare et annum faustum - Bon Nadal y Prestosu Añu Nuevu - ne zaolige Kiësmes, e gelèkkig Nauwjoër, ên al wo wènselek ès! - bon Nadal e bon an - ayüwün-ngechi lleqün antü ka küpalechi we tripantu - bòun Nadêl e bòun ân - buonu Natale e felice nuov'anno - god Jul og godt nyttår - Bon Pasku i Felis Aña Nobo - bon Nadèl e dla felicitè par al an nòv - Bon Natal e Bon Ann neuv - Wesolych Swiat i szczesliwego Nowego Roku - bom Natal e feliz Ano Novo - koa ite navidad ote mata hiti api - bon Nadél e feliz 'an nov - bon Natali e filici annu novu - feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo - god jul och gott nytt år - bon Natale e fecunnu annu nòu - Bon Nadal e Bon Ano Nóvo - Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda - bon Denâ e feliçe anno neuo

This website was devised originally as a direct responce to the feeble and pathetic offering WDC had for Bedlington! With only his nouse and commitment to the town to work with I think Threegee did and has continued to do a superb job, all free and with no WDC support, in fact in the early days quite the opposite! Hats off to Threegee!

Now hey, nothing wrong with Mr Pratchett I started reading his books before he got other people to write them and anyone who can wear a hat of such proportions to hide a bald head cannot be all bad!

I was reading a new book last night, by a bestselling American novelist (Clive Custler), and he had to “ground” one of the characters in Newcastle upon Tyne. He did that my mentioning the guy was 20 miles from Bedlington! So my question is, does that make Bedlington more internationally famous than Newcastle? Guess I know the answer on this forum! I have come across references to Bedlington in another novel I read but can’t remember the title? Anyone else come across the Town in this way?

Take a wild guess Wanderer!

Liked that one as well Swalnalla and don't knock on my door in the AM as I will be sacrificing a goat to the unholy deighty that is WDC!

Excellent CK!

Lets not catagorise anyone. That way lies total boredom and no chance of learning something new and interesting. Please don't attempt to shape this site to meet rigid requirements. Otherwise you will find life very dull, boring, and lonly. Joe Don't think that will happen in this site Joe, if anything the moderators let too much through! I agree you need knowledge to make the decisions pertinent to your own life and mixing with others who are not of the same mind can only be benificial as you see and hear other ideas. Of course that depends on someone having an open mind and willing to explore other ways of doing things. The problem seems to be that it is that very "openess" which allows the zealots in, and not just religious ones! I presume it is hoped that society is educated enough to recognise these extreamists for what they are and disregard their teachings because the only other option is to have a closed society and that is somethign we like to think we will fight against. Recent global events and their "local" repercussions would tend to make me wonder if we are now on a knife edge between the two states or indeed if a Totaliterian state dosn't already exist in the UK?

I am with you on that one Joe, come the revolution brother they will be the first ones against the wall!

A couple of thousand years of death and destruction all in the name of a benign religion!

Saw that CK but one thing puzzels me, if the subject matter is religion, which is really a belief in something which grounds it, then does it not transpire that 666 is indeed the numeral of the beast as it has been belived in by people over millennia or was their core belief just wrong? For me 50 is far more scarrier than 666! We now know where threegee moonlights, making up questions for QI!

It wasn't the Xmas lights, per say, Denzil it was what they represented, ie, WDC's commitment to Bedlington. As a fully PAID UP third partner in the unholy alliance which is WDC, shouldn't Bedlington have got a third share?

That will be Homo sapiens confined to xenophobic genocide then, will it?

Denzel, you could get a job for Bush in his foreign affairs office with views like that!

[ Where else on Earth would pass up such a tourist revenue opportunity? Well - I'll tell you where - the completely unsung Town that invented the railways that now span the Earth, and for good measure was also the birthplace on the guy who engineered the very first transcontinental communications cable. Both of the inventions which have completely transformed the World over the last century and a half. There is, of course, a well-visited museum to these great engineering achievements. Err... no! So.. welcome to the Town that's had it's identity stolen in more ways than one. The famous Town which is head and shoulders over very other Town in the World in the total and utter lack of enterprise stakes! Who is to blame for this? Well, it's a long story, and not too many people come out Persil white. Maybe I will get around to documenting a bit of it before too long. Like that one Threegee! Couple more for the pot; Documented history from around 900AD. Links to the spread of christanity. "Shire" status awarded. (Maybe someone can dig out when, where and why?) "Invented" iron rail tracks. Built most of the first steam locos. Sir Danial Gouch. "Chartist" movement. First penny black posted here. All in all a rich tapistry of history, certainly during the early part of the industrial revolution of the country, and as you say worthy of at least a visitor centre celebrating a World Heritage site!

Seriously, it should be pointed out that those on the buildings have once again been fitted and funded by the Bedlington Forum, and not W.D.C. We are all grateful to Mr. Brian Oliver for the hard work he unselfishly puts in organising the Bedlington Town Forum. Hear Hear! Once again the Bedlingtonshire Chamber of Trade is putting, time, effort and money into lighting St Cuthberts Church Yard - which overlooks the Town Center. To give them credit, I'm told that dear old Wansbeck District Council is putting on a much better display on the lamp posts etc. this year. (Could some of the public critisim here have been heeded?) The cameras will be out shortly to test this hypothesis. It still smarts to think that almost 15 grand of Bedlington's publicly donated money was usurped by WDC and we saw lighting displays which "WE" had bought up in the likes of Ashington! They might be putting a bit more into Bedlington now but they have a long long way to go!

Looks like they need Thunderbirds on standby when they try that!

Are we really going to see all the closed pits reopened? If you belive they were closed for purely economic reasons then the price of coal nowadays is reason enough to see them opened up again without considering that link! If China is bringing online a "dirty" coal fired power station very couple of weeks we are really pittling in the ocean!

Sorry Pete it was the American mid terms, I was just interested to know if anyone thought the results might have a bearing on domestic policies. For my money it looks like they already have as we now see a scramble to have a timed withdrawl from Iraq. Also if the people knocking on your door ask you to vote in a local election, for a national political party, then then their policies must be questioned locally. I know at least two "sons of Bedlington" who have been over there fighting for......well....er....hmm....the oil interests of the USA, Saddam apart of course! If we now justify the war by saying the removal of a dictator was the reason for it and that in itself is a good enough reason to go in then when do we invade North Korea et al, or do we now just accept the hypocracy clearly on show?