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Look out for Al Murray's party political broadcast. The FUKP party! He alleges he is going to stand for Thanet! Very funny and very dodgy content.

Will look at your suggestion threegee. Thank you. I like the idea of the waxed string, spuggies and patrolling cats.

It seems Cheviot may mean the place of the Goats.

The answer is we will have an older population therefore school places not needed. I do not think they have any answers. Basically Government led. Money making for the developers. They say they have looked at the ratio of properties sold and properties that will be needed. I think the figures will prove to be what they want them to be . Hope I am wrong and we end up with an amazing town!

On a numbers game. The plans were :- Broadway House Farm was number 6744. West of Westlea on land that floods 6773 Haselmere up to the Blue house Farm 6775 Behind Haselmere 6774. The plan was/is for 1,200 new dwellings over twenty years Equating to sixty houses per year on average The plan also says that a new area for housing will be needed North of the Town. Guidepost/ Stakeford and Choppington get their own plan that is separate . That details 420 new dwellings. With some new housing to South of Guidepost. Maybe today will show different details. Whether the schools, doctors or even roads can deal with the extra people is an issue. South East Northumberland is to get 12,820 new dwellings over the twenty year period.

Welcome home

Please go to the meeting tomorrow.

Remember to go tomorrow. Huge significance for the next 20years and Bedlington. Do not be 'fobbed off' read carefully what is on the future plans. The Blue House plans and the Broadway House development were just not in the Core Strategy plans December 2013 that I read about and collected their shinny brochure. They were odd sites not considered but slipped in. They were on separate maps and only when you asked questions did you realise that they were hugely significant. West Bedlington Council did not seem aware and a meeting of Bedlington In Bloom took place on the same night. Only dedicated councillors were at that meeting for Bedlington in Bloom No one seemed to realise what had been slipped in under the radar.

Good points pilgrim. We are on a pilgrimage route from Jarrow to Lindisfarne allegedly . I think the name of our town and the religious site are of importantance to the history of ancient Bernicia.

We do not need a lap top other than for flash drive and certain sites. The old ones do the job . Cds may become important again when the whole Internet becomes non viable threegee. After all it is easily hacked and therefore could just as easily be shut down. The company's selling items seem suspect. Data selling has become very important. Everyone is after your name and e mail. It is therefore worth money to companies

If you want to see what is happening do not forget tomorrow and the Core Strategy Plan

The best of wishes for a great day and year. Then there are wishes for being healthy wealthy and wise. Keep a had

It seems every green area is up for grabs. Maybe just sold to the highest bidder or entrepreneur ! We are told new houses are essential but then it seems no one can afford them. Kids move back with parents and every city seems to have huge new high rise flats. We seem powerless. A development in Netherton Lane has been turned down but with appeals that may not be the end of the matter. Good Luck with keeping Glanton safe and green.

Welcome to the site pilgrim. You seem very knowledgable about all things Bedlington. There are lots of details hidden away under obscure topics. Plessey and the war years are in here somewhere. There are other interesting details about war storage areas some underground. Spoach around. I look forward to your input.

Our town and surrounding area are the very best location. Higher ground for Defence, Running Water (transport and worship), Fuel (wood and coal), Iron deposits. If a Bedesman is someone who prays for a person then surely our town could be :- Bede Ling Ton A town to pray. No one knows for sure.

It seems they just do not like Emile Sande Brett. I do not agree with them. I classify music as like and dislike!

What lap top should we buy in 2015.? Accepting we have two useless lap tops because of windows 98 or XP not sure which! They still do CDs or play DVDs but they are not supported on the internet.

Guess headphones are the answer Symptoms.. We had to sit through the Newport Jazz Festival on Christmas Day with our kids educating us on the impressive artists. Seems our Christmas cd did not make the play list of acceptable listening. Emile Sande drew the biggest groan. Our Grandkids love 'Frozen' but that proved a big turn off for our children.

I have great memories of Glanton and the Red Cross camp. The area is a favourite to walk and visit to this day.. Lovely place to live NormanD. I wonder if the Core Strategy meeting at Wooler on the 14th January 2015 Cheviot Centre 10am till 2pm will change the area. I hope not!

Justice is not an issue of gender. Details of the case are disturbing to anyone. No one wins !

At the Brenkley Lane surface mine archaeologists are unearthing a five hectare settlement. It is centred on four roundhouses within a double rectangular enclosure. The remains relate to a period of occupation during the Iron Age. I think Bedlington with our Iron and Coal deposits must have similar areas waiting to be discovered.

Please, if you have any interest in our town and county, look in on one of these sessions. Bedlington local plan can be viewed next Thursday 15th January 2015 between 1pm and 7:30pm. The venue is the Council Offices.

Maybe we will be on the closure list.

Welcome NormanD I look forward to your contributions. I remember going to Glanton to help at the Red Cross Centre, It was with Miss Wilkinson and others from Westridge. We were older than you born 1946/47.

Our tradition is to let the old year or the old man out the back door and then in through the front door after the clock strikes midnight and the new year begins. This year there were so many fireworks that the Grandkids refused to come in.