Keith Scantlebury

I must admit I agree with Charlie on this one, parents should be responsible for looking after their own kids in the park. But we do live in a "where theres blame, theres a claim" society. Was there not a child who drowned there [or in another council owned paddling pool] or seriously injured a few years ago? I do know there was an issue with broken glass in the pool at one time.

Crazy golf? I agree, all golf is crazy

Thanks for the tip Malcolm, they will come in handy, but there again, I know my short comings, what about you?

MERLIN !!!!! You had to open your big piggin mouth didn't ya. Now where am I gonna go to drink my cider and meths in peace, ffs man nothing is sacred.

A few people and hostelries in Rothbury were relieved of some hard earned reddies because they were taken in by Ryman and Mortakis. They regularly traveled between Blyth and Rothbury in a taxi with someone [for some reason] following behind in Rymans Range Rover.

Dunno what happened there, it took a funny fit. Never mind it is still readable

Merc, the wife and I went to a meeting with NBSL in Ass-ington last Wednesday and had a very informative meeting with a business advisor called Alan Grieves. He has given us some contacts for low intrest loans and grants. Your friend can do himself no harm at all by making an appointment to see him. I will pm you my phone number if you want to ring me.

Nothing new really and it will always happen as long as there is a cesspit called THE PALACE OF WESTMINSTER for them all to meet. John Ryman [remember him?] he was the daddy of them all. He set the benchmark for the benchmark.

I just read that FIFA told the Brazilians to build a venue to stage the World cup 2014 draw. This cost the Brazilian tax payers £18,000,000 for the 100 minute event. £180,000 per minute. £3,000 per second. Who can justify extravegance on that scale given the state of the world as it is at the moment.

And that, Malcolm, is what is commonly known as having faith in ones equipment and even more commonly known as a F@%$@ing idiot !!!! FFS.

Looking at Englands group to qualify for Brazil 2014. Poland, Ukraine, Montenegro,Moldova,San Marino. I wouldn't rush out to book a flight to Rio just yet.!!!! Any one of those, including San Marino could scupper England.

There seemed to be plenty there Foxy. I intended to go but as it happened I had other things to do at home, but it was nice to see that they had a good turn out. Ian Bell is one of the major Yamaha dealers in the U.K. and that alone is down to shear hard work, you are absolutely right the business is a credit to Bedlington.

The most expensive event to compete in is -believe it or not- Water Polo.............. The cost of replacing those polo ponies after drowning one every couple of minutes or so is astronomical.

....... or with those who attend the Haltwhistle lifeboat open day

Will have to meet up Brian,are you coming back for a holiday or has Oz had enough of ya? :rofl:

Cheer up Merlin mate, you have all of those old ladies to wrestle with when they try to get out the wrong way again.

I saw ABU HAMZA outside Morrisons with 6 bags of heavy shopping earlier today. It looked like he was needing a hand.

Had Amy Winehouse not been in the public eye, this would just be another smackhead getting exactly what she deserves. Like any other substance/alcohol abuser who's life has ended this way, she has left a family behind who, I expect will be absolutely devastated. She is no different from those who take these family and life wrecking drugs while living on the streets or in some seedy squat, those people too have a family [well most of them] who have been torn apart by the evils of heroin and crack cocaine. Amy Winehouse was an incredibly talented singer with a lifetime of fame and success ahead of her, it was she who chose to live the life she did. My sympathies today tend to lay with the parents of those poor unfortunate kids camping in Norway, NOW THAT TRULY IS A TRAGEDY. Amy Winehouse had a choice, those Norwegian kids did not.

Bailey, Is there a paper petition as well as this e-petition ? Malcolm, You seem a little wary of this petition, do you have reason to think we should be? I for one have wasted no time in signing it.

Brilliant Malcolm, I agree with Foxy. They'll not only get away with it, they will turn it to the good somehow. Just watch, there could be a new Sunday paper and it will be a roaring success on the back of all the rotten goings on following the demise of the N.O.T.W. comic.

WHAT ? well you must really have the shakes Malcolm. Does that mean when you go out with your mates they have to put umbrellas up. :D

There you go, Malcolm Robinson a philosopher for the drunkard, a man after my own heart.

Well done Naomi, that is a tidy ammount to go to a very worthwhile cause.

Brian, would you like to take Malcolm under your wing and give him a lesson or two in the art of selecting jokes that are funny enough to post. Don't get me wrong, he has given us some good ones but due to this rare dissorder he has developed, it means that that the poor unfortunate soul is scraping the humour barrel bare, trying to raise a solitary titter. He is getting desperate mate.