Malcolm Robinson
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Any gardeners out there................get signed up! 2014 Entry Form Gardening Competition.pdf
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http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/local-news/post-16-transport-cut-to-go-ahead-1-6644662
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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
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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 -
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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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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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..........
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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'.
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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.
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Results: (NE) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/eu-regions/E15000001
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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.
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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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What really rankled me about the Thatcher privatisation run out was the way that the industries were privatised with basically the same management teams in place and whereas beforehand they were making losses as nationalised industries almost overnight they became huge money/profit generating machines. Why couldn't they have done that for us? Now most are controlled by foreign entities, not a very good or secure place to be with your indigenous power/water/communications/etc. industries. Gordo was just a bumpkin, not a good Chancellor and a hopeless Premier but then he was a product of our political system, as was Mr Blair. As is the current crop of ne'er-do-wells! Nigel looks appealing to some because he looks to be different or at least possess a set of Maracas! Or in Boris's case provides entertainment! The whole economic 'ideological verses proven practical' argument is futile because it's the politicians who control the system. (Or who are supposed to!) We can see the excellent example just over the water where a political ideal was put in first, followed by all practical economic/financial elements. That's the wrong way around and that's why the Euro will fail. Nothing wrong with a Euro project but that has to lead and dictate the 'political make up' where it's used. I too think we should be looking at the Mutual models for a whole raft of uses.
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It's an apolitical way of improving things for the entire community. I agree GGG but as the COOP has amply just demonstrated its really down to the integrity and acumen of the people given the task to run it/them. I would take issue with your previous statement too about nationalisation; I am not so sure it can't work. In fact I think it could work if it's given the same structures and obligations a privatised unit has to endure. At the end of the day its only about ultimate ownership but I think where we both do agree is that the way its ran tips the balance. We started off right at the cutting edge of technology, eg Industrial Revolution, and exported to the world making us rich beyond avarice, or certainly compared to the previous Agro economic models of previous centuries. Somewhere along the lines we became complacent and other nations took up the baton for technological advances. Not only that we lost our traditional industries to other places once they saw how they equated to rising living standards. Now by and large we have been deluded into thinking the service sector can sustain our economy but without a robust manufacturing sector all that does is cut hair and sell imported goods, AKA contemporary Bedlington!
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Is anyone now in doubt that we have a social revolution taking place? Is there? Its at a snail's pace if there is, certainly in this neck of the woods!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27531094
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Back in the late 90's I ran the Bedlingtonshire Chamber of Trade and one of the fund-raisers for the Xmas Lights we did was a charity cricket match between us and the cricket club. I even made a trophy ( I think we played for it twice?) called the Owzat Trophy. Course the Cricket Club won each time but a good day out and few bob for the Bedlington Xmas Lights.......(now I wonder whatever happened to them!!!!)
