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  1. Malcolm Robinson
    Cup final winners! http://www.morpethherald.co.uk/sport/local-sport/football/deadlocked-cup-final-won-by-wharton-on-penalties-1-6644746
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    I wonder if it might have something to do with the Slayley Court entrance, because that is now the entrance for all the building traffic for the new houses down there? I know its not the same entrance but being adjacent.........its not a leap to imagine someone working on the wrong bit of road! Also I heard the Cricket Club are looking to expand not close shop.
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    HPW, First of all let's just say I support and sympathise with a call for a miner's memorial in Bedlington but why something like the NUM can't do it bemuses me! Anyway your posting contains a number of popular inaccuracies and no doubt I will be seen as one of the poor excuses for councillors we have but this really needs to be put right. You mention council, "the council spent on painting the Rostrum” and "Look at the keep-fit equipment along Cambois beach”. You are actually referring to two councils one West Bedders the other East Bedders. It might be popular to pilloried "Council” but the basic inaccuracy doesn't help the argument. Secondly no council spent anything on "painting the Rostrum” that was funded by a SITA grant. Likewise the gym equipment at Cambois and the Rail sculpture, both were funded by grants not ratepayers! The point about trying to "shame a councillor into helping out” is a moot point too because Adam is a councillor and has championed the idea at council meetings only to be told that while council would support a community initiative they didn't feel spending ratepayers money and leading on this sort of project was justified. The ball is quite firmly in the community's court, if you want to organise a group to lead on a project like this then do it, I can almost guarantee it would get support from all over. Holding up "Council” as a generic panacea to everything or the root cause of all evil is as unworkable and outdated as it sounds. And before everyone has a go at me I have asked about the likelihood of the NUM funding or part funding a memorial only to be told it's not something they would consider!
  4. Malcolm Robinson
    Any good gardeners here? (See news section) 2014 Entry Form Gardening Competition.pdf
  5. Malcolm Robinson
    Eggy........as if!!!!!!!!!
  6. Malcolm Robinson
    Any gardeners out there................get signed up! 2014 Entry Form Gardening Competition.pdf
  7. Malcolm Robinson
    http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/local-news/post-16-transport-cut-to-go-ahead-1-6644662
  8. Malcolm Robinson
    Rothbury election. http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/local-news/results-announced-in-rothbury-parish-election-1-6634375?WT.mc_id=Outbrain_text&obref=obinsite
  9. Malcolm Robinson
    More information about "Bedlington looking for Blooming Good Gardens."
    A resident's group "Bedlington in Bloom" in partnership with West Bedlington Town Council is to hold a summer gardening competition for West Bedlington residents. This is the first time West Bedlington Town Council has organised a gardening competition and it wants to encourage as many residents as possible to enter. The competition is just one initiative of the Bedlington in Bloom group to help generate a real interest within the community, to enhance and improve the environment and a pride in the West Bedlington area. The group, chaired by retired resident Hugh Kerr, has a varied makeup with residents, representatives from the business and church communities as well as Town Councillors. The garden competition which is being supported by Barchester Health Care and Birchwood Nurseries of Stannington Station, is open to all West Bedlington residents, within three categories: large garden, small garden or garden area, and senior citizens or disabled person's garden. Hugh Kerr, chairman of the resident's group said, "We would like to encourage as many residents as possible to enter the competition. Judging will take place during July with a presentation of prizes taking place in autumn. This is a real opportunity for the whole community to get involved in something that can improve the general feeling of wellbeing in the community through gardening. We hope it will also showcase some of the wonderful gardens we have in the area". Entry to the competition is free. Entry forms are available from West Bedlington Town Council, Bedlington Community Centre, Front Street West, Bedlington, Northumberland NE22 5TT, Telephone 01670 457070 or online at the Councils website www.westbedlington.org.uk and from various locations in Bedlington. The Closing date for entries is Friday 4th July 2014. Entry Form: 2014 Entry Form Gardening Competition.pdf
  10. Malcolm Robinson
    Funny that, I remember someone using the very same description of our council at the last Forum meeting! http://www.newspostleader.co.uk/news/local/former-mayor-launches-a-legal-challenge-1-6642193?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
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    First I don't normally have my phone on me and second I would have to scratch the image onto the plastic, its a phone not a camera! Whats this I hear, someone has put the two together, gadzooks sir, whatever will they think of next for this modern world. Luddites rule.........
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    Passed this last night, funny place to happen just south of the village. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/four-hospital-after-northumbria-police-7185900
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    Deek and Napper I have heard and used myself at times. Never come across scratcha but then it was the Chronicle.
  14. Malcolm Robinson
    Well it happened at the same time... http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/ed-milibands-car-gets-parking-7134384
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    I didn't know some of these........... http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-sayings-updated-top-56-6466922
  16. Malcolm Robinson
    That'ill never happen if the Jocks cut loose. Somewhere around Haltwhistle is about mid UK mainland. In fact I think there was a middle of the UK cafe there if I remember? Certainly a marker. Mid England would be around Derby/Nottingham?
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    Groovy man..........
  18. Malcolm Robinson
    Maybe time to 'annex' our own capital and capital! You can't have one small area so out of step with the rest it's untrue, especially when it is supposed to be exemplary of the country as a whole. Maybe they really do think themselves Burgundians………AKA 'Passport to Pimlico'.
  19. Malcolm Robinson
    I saw it first with the Lloyds 1990's insurance busts. Passing a very hot parcel of sh..one.. t around and hoping you're not the one left holding when the music stops. Just repeat after me…….TOO BIG TO FAIL!
  20. Malcolm Robinson
    Could be time to marginalise London so it either steps into line with the rest of the country or the rest of the country ostracise's it.
  21. Malcolm Robinson
    Results: (NE) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/eu-regions/E15000001
  22. Malcolm Robinson
    I think journalist standards all but disappeared many years ago! Couldn't believe the financial crisis coverage. Literally! Not that surprising when a so called celebrity on a diet/off a diet/never dieting gets more column inches than the potential start of another world war in various geographical places.
  23. Malcolm Robinson
    I think sub prime debt was the trigger, the fact that everyone got into the game is not excusable in law. Ask the Nuremberg prosecutors!
  24. Malcolm Robinson
    The whole crazy climate was fuelled by Gordo's self-delusion. I think Mr Greenspan had a little to do with it.........!
  25. Malcolm Robinson
    I have looked at the Credit Union model and I think it's too rigid. It does have appealing fundamentals for educating people and their money uses but it doesn't go far enough. Or it isn't allowed to go far enough to be more exact. I think mixing some of credit union basics with a more flexible 'People's Bank' would be the way to go. Or to put it another way a 21st Century Mutual! Might have been interesting to see a Left of centre political party which was in power at the time of the financial meltdown to actually have the spine to seek to address the meltdown with left of centre ideals. Letting the failing banks go bust then mutualising them the next day would have been my preferred option but who would we have running them coz I would have had the Bankers in the Tower!
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