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Well said!!! Me and Mrs wanderer have been on a few rare occasions and the food is top quality and the owners are a delight. You are quite right to point out that instead of 4 pints and a bag of chips you can get award winning resteraunt food in our town for the same price. They are a great example of people using fresh local produce and are hopefully making a great success of their business and me and mrs wanderer wish them the best of luck!!!!

Here we go with that old defeatist attitude again (and, incidentally, if you think you'd get a starter for a fiver at any of those two venues you must be joking - you wouldn't get a slice of bread); why shouldn't Bedlington have a quality restaurant, serving great food (and it is great, really)? Are you of the opinion that 'as this is Bedlington Front Street' we should be limited to kebabs and takeaways? Furthermore, how much is a Pizza at Best Bite these days? How much is a kebab at Moby's? Compare what you pay there, and what you get, with what you pay and get at Accolade and you have to be a fool to realise you're being robbed at four quid for a doner! Rather than dissing a place that charges what are - if you know what you're on about - very sensible prices indeed for excellent food, and rather than pouring scorn on a local couple who are attempting to make somethinf of themselves and move away from this 'but its only Bedlington' attitude, we should be championing a successful (very successful, in fact) and award winning business (best small restauarant in the north) that might just inspire others to open something that is not a hairdressers once in a while. If you're willing to pay more than ten quid for four pints, I can't see why anyone should turn up their nose at the same price for the best meal you'll find in the locality.

Yes it would be great to have the line open again, but I hope the pricing and timetabling will be adequate for everyone, for example the first train to Newcastle from Cramlington is 8.11am and is never big enough to accommodate the number of passengers, this is no good for people who start earlier or indeed work 8am-4pm shifts, or cleaners etc, some people like to go early, some people work later than 6pm when the train stops running, we need a service for the 21st century that operates within our 24hr society. Then of course there is the pricing, £6 return on Arriva buses from Bedlington, no good for families or couples, in Newcastle the £2.40 all day any bus is a great deal on Stagecoach, although this is not on every bus company, there is an apt bus called 'The Highwayman', the driver with his mask and gun of course . Additionally people like to go to Newcastle for a night out, drinking or going the Theatre, or late night shopping. If we are to get people out of their cars and onto public transport we need something that runs like the Metro. So I hope the powers at be listen to the views and opinions of the public who are going to use the service afterall.

ON Saturday the 'Ashington Future' became the first passenger train to run to the town in more than 40 years when it departed from Morpeth Station. http://www.morpethherald.co.uk/news/Passen...line.4165602.jp

i completey agree....but this is down to the Railway Company running the Route, (Northern Rail) if the market is there they will follow though. and pricing is a issuie, with Buses and the routes they get money for running them, Arriva and rip offs compaired to stage coach and Go North East. the pricing will work out the same roughy (and Railways get goverment money for running trains, railway companys also get plentys if they run late) . but we'll see. about seating, yeah ive been on plenty trains and there packed (Ive been on them) they dont run old style sericves in the NE like they use to with a locomotive and coaches (nice long train with plenty room on local serivces only on the mainline) . if the trains are packed Northern Rail should Follow though with bigger (longer) trains to acomadate for the passengers and run more trains. Only Issuie is with Network Rail for running late trains, with the Blyth and Tyne Area having old signaling (which personal i think its better over all due to the nature of the line) is if Northern can make sure there going to make engouth money on these late routes to justicfy keeping all the Signal Boxes open, in thoery you could run Via Morpeth, meaning you need less signalboxes which need to be maned. Although depending if the boxes are going to be open Network rail could make freight movements later meaning more passenger trains during the day. its quite tricky, and there is alot of paper work rubbish to go though. there is a bright side to this if the B&T (blyth and Tyne) is we may start getting chater trains coming to the area (special trains ran by privite companys) which will birng tourisim to the area. also means chaters starting from this area. there are chaters that leave morpeth that go all over the UK, i went on one in 2007 to Oban for the day was great! so again meaning the people of Bedlington get the best out of new stations. (bit off topic but worth saying). so just think you goto Bedlington station say 5.30, 6.00am in the morning and by dinner time you could be in london, oban fortwillam or lincon for the christmas market or Festingog in wales.