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2 hours ago, threegee said:

Just when you were doing so well Ronnie! 

What a difference two months can make.

https://www.newspostleader.co.uk/news/following-my-beliefs-in-eu-vote-1-8755929

This is just a reminder that TV licence will be debated at 4:30 on Monday 20th November in Westminster Hall’s Grand Committee Room. The sitting will last for up to three hours. Entry is free of charge. There is no system of tickets or advanced booking. Places are limited and visitors are admitted on a first come, first served basis. 

You can also watch it at http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Commons. A transcript will be published the following day at hansard.parliament.uk

Also, I've been chatting with a few journalists recently to make sure they are aware of the debate and intend to cover it. Even a TV channel producer contacted me yesterday because they want to make something special on Monday, so keep your eyes out!

Bye for now

Caroline 

@lalionneuk

I could not help noticing a few weeks ago that according to his profile Russ Wallace has never visited these  forums ??

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22 hours ago, Bedlingtonian said:

Latest plans for the election boundary changes have been released and the national press are naturally focusing on Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn. If the changes take place it will be interesting to see if Ian Lavery fights to retain the Ashington / Berwick seat or pops across the Wansbeck to take over a safe seat from Ronnie Campbell who plans to step down before the next election.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41643467

I think your predictions are spot on Bedlingtonian

Last election for Berwick 2017 the Tory won 22,145 votes (52 per cent) this time round, compared to 16,603 (41.4 per cent) in 2015, with Labour's Scott Dickinson (10.364)

Could you imagine Ashington as a Tory Town they would be chucking themselves of the pigeon Crees

Thats the wonderful thing about living in a democracy we all get to have our say, although I an sure some wish we did not

Some may see it as negativity when folks views and ideas differer to the ones they hold, I see it as voicing an opinion 

On 29/09/2017 at 20:14, Russ Wallace said:

 

• A range of retailers have leased the five largest units. For commercial reasons they cannot yet be named, but they complement rather than rival our current Front Street shops.
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https://www.aldi.co.uk/about-aldi/property/required-towns/north-east-england-north-yorkshire-and-cumbria

More cheap beans, just what we need,  how long will it be before one of the other supermarkets close, Tescos could not make it pay when they were the only store in town .

Three supermarkets can not survive in Bedlington    

15 hours ago, Russ Wallace said:

•  they complement rather than rival our current Front Street shops.
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So  hopefully we wont be seeing any more  Hairdressers, Barbers, Tattooists,  Dog-groomers or purveyors of Baccy and Booze.

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I first meet  and became friends with Charlie in the early seventies  when I worked in Morpeth,  he was  a well known and well liked lad who enjoyed a drink but never caused any trouble or had a bad word to say about anyone. He had a brother called Geoffrey (Geoff) but Geoff and Charlie were like chalk and cheese, total opposites, Geoff died very young  I think he would be in his thirties, he contracted some tropical parasitic disease while i think he was working in Africa .       

Charlie’s  favourite drinking dens in those days would have been the old Grey Bull , the Earl Grey, the George and Dragon and the Queens Head, (all long gone) , I can well remember one particulate night  after a lock in at the George and Dragon Charlie rather worse for wear after a good day on the hoy left the Dragon to go home in the early hours and on exiting the front door of the Dragon turned a full circle and walked through the large plate glass window of the Abbey National Building Society , he ended up sitting among  the window display covered in glass but did not have a mark on him, we still had Bobbies on the beat then and it was not to long until an amused looking  copper arrived to de-tangle Charlie from the window display.

I did not know Charlie had passed away until I read it here today ,

He will be missed by those that  knew him (and by the pubs he drank in ).

God bless Charlie mate, and rest in peace.            

On 09/08/2017 at 21:58, webtrekker said:

I remember going to Clarence Cooper's prize bingo in the Locke Hall with me Mam. 

Did  Cooper's also  used to have the bingo on Glebe road ? I think I can remember one of the sons, was it the same family of Cooper's that lived at the showman's guild trailer site that used to be behind the Travellers pub ( Wally's ) at Scotland-gate

Looks like the family may still be in the bingo business

https://www.addressesandpostcodes.co.uk/address/ch-SX2H7k7t/clarence-cooper-co-limited-the-pavillion-bingo-15-main-street-ferryhill-dl17-8la.html

46 minutes ago, pilgrim said:

no - but I saw a dog (a Bedlington terrier at that) who expressed its opinion on them ....

Was it that big cardboard cut out dog near the golf club that looks like Scooby Doo with a boil on his lug hole

(or is it wearing a pom pom hat)

I bet you did not see one of those posh expensive looking green signs pointing out  public toilets Pilgrim,

16 hours ago, Orloff said:

 Could the "thing" on the roof, be a bell tower? For what use I have no idea whatsover.

Orloff I think its a cupola and was often seen on co op buildings and made  in a fancy dome design ,

I think it was for ventilation or light in the attics

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupola

I can remember going in to the Stakeford COOP as a boy with my Grandmother, no self service in those days just about everything sold was loose and was put up to the customers needs, sugar was weighed and put in to blue paper bags, butter was in a huge lump and the customers requirement was cut off and shaped using wooden spatula kind of tools then wrapped, same with cheese cut with a cheese wire and wrapped, bacon was sliced to the customers preferred thickness. The counter assistant who served  you did not take your money she sent you bill whizzing along one of those zip wires to the cash office and they sent  you change and you dividend receipt whizzing back to the counter.

I can still remember our check number , what a job it must have been for the cashiers in those days working out all the yearly dividend payments using nowt more than a pencil and paper.              

On 07/09/2017 at 19:12, Eggy1948 said:

 
There are several buildings locally that have similar structures including the old COOP building at Stake ford and the COOP at Bedlington Station.

 

 

 

Eggy I believe the Club was built by the COOP,  

the COOP was a much bigger concern years ago and had a building/construction side along with electrical joinery etc.

All the clubs used the COOP for banking etc in those days   

I also remember the siren on the old police station.

By the end of the cold war in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the national siren system was largely dismantled. The British Government cited the increasing use of double glazed windows (making  sirens harder to hear)  Some coastal areas still retain and regularly test the sirens as part of the flood warning defences and military bases apparently still have the sirens.

I think the structure on the club roof is known as a cupola

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I blame it all on Brexit, and the Tories, and turning off the chimes on Big Ben. 

Good old Jean Claude, I'm so glad I voted for him

Oh wait .......we did not .....did we ?

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11 hours ago, bluebarby said:

You said the weekend!!!!

 

 

Now now Barby, divint thy be so impatient,

Ya will be able ta watch it all  from the comfort of ya armchair on ya telly, ..... pet 

10 hours ago, bluebarby said:

Watched the news tonight with eager anticipation of the violent outbursts in London forecast  ..............Nowt!

Saw Hammond this morning forecasting an easy breakfast. But riots ...........Nowt! 

Never mind there is always next weekend.......................

You must get out more Barby  pet, its all arranged for this Wednesday.

The day of rage posters have been slapped all over London  advertising  for all hooligans   rioters  and  looters  to cause  mayhem shut down the city and bring down the government.

Of course our Biased Broadcasters have not given it a mention, thats why thy knows nowt about it 

.http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/818437/grenfell-tower-london-fire-socialist-militants-plan-day-of-rage-theresa-may-parliament

It happens just about every year, last year all the planters on the railings opposite the Northumberland Arms /outside St Cuthberts  were all pulled off and scattered in the road and footpath, local residents and children replaced and replanted them.  I also noticed planters and baskets put up by shops pulled down and destroyed.

Bring back the CTV cameras we used to have on the street . 

3G I think you  missed weaponise  the tragic  fire in London,    blame it on the Tories, the Royals, the wealthy, and anyone who has been successful  in life , send momentum and the students bought with  free tuition fees Led by  Luvies such as Silly Lilly,  all whipped up to a frenzy by our Biased Broadcasting Companies and you have the recipe for the most violent outbursts on the street of London this week end. 

The party of hate is a very apt description, but will Jeza be able to resist joining the baying mobs as he seems to be trying to create a saintly image of himself this week .

Alas Jezza is preaching to the converted in Gateshead , they would vote for an orangutan.....as long as it was standing for Labour