Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Were you not notified of this event young lady? Get your birthday settings checked!

........just singing and dancing in the rain - Doobe do do doobe doobe doo do.....................

They did cross Andy. Looks like CL has many 'settings' selected.

I think I only receive emails where another user has replied to a comment I have made and that user uses the 'Quote' facility to comment. I have just used the 'Quote' facility replying to Symptoms but I have NOT received any email notifying me of that action. Checked my profile, and yours CL, but can't see anything in there that would allow me to change what notifications I receive - could just be an Administrator faciity. See what happens, email or no email, when I save this comment.

Sym, and woof, incognito it is then

Thanks Sym. I always do my best to add the name of originator when I post on other sites - Do you want to be referred to as 'Symptoms, off the Bedlington Community site' of another name?

Symptoms - I've added a couple of names, from previous posts, to what you already had listed. Wold you like me to add the photos into the Westridge Album on this site and post your photos on the Facebook sites and see if we can get the rest named?

The new wireless range where the 'bell-push' doesn't have to be screwed into your lovely upvc front door. Just use double sided tape and the kids can remove the bell-push easily and ring the bell from up to 300m away!. Parents are often complaining that children are spending too much time staring at screens, and now they are complaining cos the kids are outside playing games!! Example wireless door bell :-

It would appear one of our childhood games, Knocky door ginger, has been upgraded and is currently on the increase at the Top End. You no longer have to wrap your knuckles on the door, or use the push-button at the door! Comments on Facebook, starting with :- Had to buy a new door bell today some silly person has pinched mine has anybody else had this problem in Bedlington ? - are :- My neighbours did. The kids pinched it and were ringing it while sitting on dereks wall. The new knocky nine doors it wud seem Yes we have on Hazelmere, little pests we're ringing it from across the road, we found it, then it's gone completely now Yeah - mine's gone. Quite a few on the Chesters have gone. Loads of people on the chesters have said the same x Yes mine has gone missing as well in Glebe Mews someone stole mine too. If they want the bit that plugs into the socket its in the bin. Had a look on Wikipedia and they reckon :- The name knock down ginger or knocky door ginger, used in Britain, comes from a British poem: Ginger, Ginger broke a winder Hit the winda – crack! The baker came out to give 'im a clout And landed on his back

Sorted

Cheers Malcolm - would you like me to update Nellie Dickson or will you do it ypurself - now I have approved you

Yesterday at 12:02 :- Northumberland County CouncilWatch our short update on the current status of restoring the passenger train line running between Woodhorn, Ashington, Bedlington, Blyth, Seaton Delaval and on to Tyneside.· https://www.facebook.com/NorthumberlandCC/videos/10155184609051522/

Malcolm - I posted the photos and Newsletter Maggies photos on the Bedlington Remembered Facebook site and one comment, just in this morning, from a member is :- 'Yes netherton road end but they took away seat that was there shame!!' Do you know if the seat has gone for ever or is it to be 're-sited' ?

And how many pledges do we here day after day, by all members of all parties. Surly you've stopped believing what politicians are forced to say up front in campaigns or interviews with TV and newspaper reporters. On your journey through life when you found out that almost every plan you made; during the many mistakes you made and experience you gained by making those mistakes, had to be changed to meet your aims did you not come to the simple conclusion - try your best and have no regrets if you get it wrong, how else would you gain experience. Don't give up something as a penalty for getting something wrong! One of the examples Google brings up for Forfeiture :- forfeiture ˈfɔːfɪtʃə/ noun the loss or giving up of something as a penalty for wrongdoing. "magistrates ordered the forfeiture of his computer" As you relax in your declining years just pretend your Jiminy Cricket, and you won't have to sing and dance in the rain, just whistle! I rest my case

Seems fair to me, situations change therefore promises are updated or changed. How many of the population will it affect? by Sam Brodbeck - The Telegraph 8 MARCH 2017 • 1:18PM Millions of self-employed workers face a hike in their National Insurance rates, bringing them closer in line with conventional employees. The move will cost 60p a week to the average self-employed person and save the Government £145m by 2021/22, the Chancellor Philip Hammond said. The change will particularly hit partners in professional firms, such as accountants, surveyors and lawyers. In another attempt to close the tax gap between different workers, the tax-free dividend allowance, often used by company directors, is to be cut from £5,000 to £2,000. The situation now People who work for themselves pay two types of National Insurance, a tax that funds benefits like the state pension and job seeker's allowance. For the 2017-18 tax year they pay Class 2 NI at £2.85 a week on profits between £6,025 and £8,164. If profits are above £8,164, these are subject to Class 4 NI at 9pc. Profits above £45,000 are taxed at 2pc. This is in contrast to employed workers who pay Class 1 NI at 12pc on earnings between £8,164 and £45,000. As with the self-employed, they pay 2pc on earnings above £45,000. What's changing? But the Chancellor said the current system "undermines the fairness of the tax system". To combat this, from April 2018 Class 2 NI will be abolished as planned, and Class 4 NI will rise from 9pc to 10pc. In April 2019 rates will rise again, to 11pc. All self-employed people earning less than £16,250 will pay less in NI as a result, Mr Hammond said in today's Budget. Why change the system? The number of self-employed workers has exploded in recent years - from just 3.8 million registered self-employed in 2008 to 4.6 million in 2015. When the new "single-tier" state pension took effect in April 2017, the old system of basic and additional pensions were abolished. Payments under the new system are more generous than the old basic state pension and as the self-employed did not have access to the additional pension, they will see increased pensions as a result. But until the Chancellor announced the increased in the self-employed's NI rates, they had not paid for the uplift in the new system. Mr Hammond said it was unfair that an employee earning £32,000 will pay £6,170 in NI, between themselves and their employer, while someone working for themselves will pay just £2,300. He added differences in relation to benefits given to parents will also be addressed via a consultation. Income tax In line with other workers, the self-employed have a "personal allowance" which means they can earn up to £11,500 in 2017-18 without paying income tax. But in contrast to employees, they pay income tax on the previous tax year's profits, revenues after business expenses. They can also deduct certain costs and even losses from previous years in some cases. A self-employed person pays both income tax and National Insurance on the 31 January based on profits from the previous year. So in January 2017 they would pay the balance due from the 2015-16 tax year. However, HMRC will ask for payments "on account" for the following year's expected profits on both 31 January and 31 July each year. The employed and self-employed use our public services in the same way — but they do not pay for them in the same way,” Hammond said. The Chancellor said an employed person earning £32,000 would rack up National Insurance contributions, between them and their employer, of £6,170, while a self-employed person earning the same amount would pay just £2,300. This difference was previously designed to reflect the variation in pension and benefits entitlements, but changed last year with the introduction of the new state pension, which gave self-employed people more entitlements.

Vic - the link takes you to the first posting of that photo within that Album. If you scroll down you will see the updated photos etc. and after a few changes in the names the last image posted = No 21, your Doreen. I don't know of a way of adding a link from an album item that would take you to a specific comment within that item.

This is a link to the photo Album https://www.bedlington.co.uk/gallery/image/2031-1950-class-2/

Link to the Album for the school and the 1970 newspaper article on the fire is in the album but they have kept Ted Coils name out of it. https://www.bedlington.co.uk/gallery/album/183-whitley-memorial-school/