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  1. Looks like the media gossip  has flushed her out to make an interview , unfortunately  it seems like it is her worst car crash interview of all time, its embarrassing to watch her but at the same time its worrying that this woman could be in charge of the security of this country.

     

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  2. Corbyn  just made a speech on Teeside and asked for a minutes silence for the people killed in the attacks at  Manchester and LIVERPOOL

    So intent on trying to score political points on the back of these peoples murders he cant even get the place they were murdered  at correct 

     

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  3. 3 hours ago, _pauls said:

    Much as I hope you're right, I interpreted the comments about amending the plans as fine tuning rather than a total rethink, and given that Ashington's new leisure centre cost double what the whole project for Bedlington is costing I doubt that Arch/the council will be able to squeeze it in.

    What happened to the money raised from the sale of the golf course and the sale of the day centre land  to Lidle ,was anything made from the sale of the old school on church lane, ? what grants are available from the sports council of great Britain or from other charitable organisations ?  

    It seems it was  no problem to blow 78 million  quid on Manor walks then another 36 million quid for the outside shops (Westmorland retail park )  not to mention the purchase of the railway tavern at Bedlington station then pull it down to use as a car park, what return revenue will they receive from that investment then ? or are they hoping that the old fairy tale of  one day a train may run from the station :lol: 

    Money is no problem as long as its for Ashington or Blyth

     

  4. 8 minutes ago, _pauls said:

    I disagree... as a family we eat out once or twice a week and if we're bored of the Red Lion we go to somewhere like the Comissioners Quay in Blyth or the Snowy Owl in Cramlington, so our money goes out of Bedlington. If we had another decent family friendly pub in town we'd be less likely to head out of the town and boost the economy of another part of the area.

    Also on a number of occasions recently we've either not gone to the Red Lion, or have gone and then walked out because its too busy and I couldn't get a table, so I'm not sure you can say there's "just enough turnover for one".

    Personally I agree I'd rather have a leisure centre but we aren't getting one, but I'm happy to have more choice in terms of pubs/restaurants rather than just more houses or small retail units.

     

    Well Pauls  Northumberland County Council has had some of the old wood pruned  away, and are making a number of changes to the plans and schemes put forward by of the previous councillors, who knows we may get our centre yet, I for one think the people of Bedlington deserve it   

  5. 1 hour ago, Andy Millne said:

    I totally agree with you that public money should not be used to 100% subsidise private business @moe19 I think Wetherspoons has shown that it is viable however and may become attractive to big brewers as part of a larger development.

    The Wetherspoons situation is a little like the Bedlington supermarkets  Andy , just enough turnover for one or at a push two, but if another one opens you have the same volume of customers spending money between three stores instead of one/two stores.

    Also I know Wetherspoons and   big brewers will only buy  property and will not rent or lease such as would be the case in the Bedlington development. renting or leasing would give these companies no assets.    If anyone was interested it would probably be a small independent pub operator with limited finances  looking for a pitch with heavy footfall to rent/lease and if things did not work out well they could walk away, leaving the Council looking for a new tenant/leaseholder and possibly having the building empty.   

  6. Sorry lads but I don't see why  the council (Arch )should use public/our   money be it borrowed or otherwise to build boozers , what next will they be building bookies or strip clubs. If any of the big brewers wanted to come to Bedlington let them use some of the millions in profits they make to build a pub themselves, but they wont because they know it is not viable .

    A sports and leisure centre is a more healthy option for our children and the community in general, rather than having the kids sitting in a pub , I have some such centres who I supply my business services to. some  do incorporate a restaurant and bar function suits  and cinema screenings  in them franchised out to an operator. in some cases the entire centre is franchised out.        

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  7.  We will probably never have the opportunity again to have such a large town centre site available for development, it should be used to the best advantage of the people of the Town.              I believe it should be used to build the Town a sports centre and swimming pool and community facilities  that we could be proud of and that would most certainly be more appreciated and used by residents  than another boozer or purveyor of cheap beans.  

  8. Without giving it much thought I can think of seven pubs that have closed in the last two or three years so why on earth would anyone think it a good idea to build another one , and its no good saying its for families to go for food as that was the format of the  Ridge farm, maybe it will be handy for the bad lads and tha mates attending court to use as a meeting room and have a few bevies before sentencing . Also another food retailer ? surely some one is having a laugh, Tesco could not make it viable when it was the only food retailer in Bedlington , now we have Morrisons and Lidle, opening a third outlet is only going to hurt them and before we know it one of them will close and we will have another empty shop. I dont think anyone had thought these ideas out and its just a case of hoy that up and keep em happy        

  9. 18 minutes ago, threegee said:

    How do we know the Nissan problem was is attack and not a straightforward bug?  It's often a convenient excuse to blame external parties for lack of testing;  we've been hacked sounds so much more dramatic and blame-free than oopsdumb mistake.

    Actually, whatever way you look at this the blame lies internally, as using a sixteen year old operating system that was always known to be riddled with bugs, was abandoned, and is has been complete maintained for three years now was asking for trouble.  Practically every home user knows this and did the necessary long ago.

    Very true 3g,  Nissan have described it as ransomware  attack.

    http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/cyber-attack-nhs-latest-news-13029913

    Many of my clients still use the XP operating system for business I even have one that runs its epos (electronic point of sales) using  good old Windows 98 :rolleyes:

    I loved 98 in its day it reminded me of an old hippy by asking     DO you really want to do this B)

    Listening to the news its reported the NHS did not use the security patch Microsoft released around March for XP that may have protected it from this attack,but who knows what really happened.    

  10. Not to worry it will be all over soon, and no matter what is said the outcome is certain.

    1 Mrs May  will win 

    2 The luvies will hold protests and marches against the democratically elected Governments plans

    3 The Ruskies will be blamed for hacking something

    4 Jerry will be replaced by someone who looks and talks  different but thinks the same way.

        

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  11. I see the BFI have  added  some new local home-made footage ,

    I rather like this one that starts out from Morpeth market place, I noticed some of the buses were from a Choppington company but I could not make out the name (it was not Dickson Jordan)

    The film is a day out for the kids from the old Sanatorium at Stannington ( it was just further up the road from St Marys ) , I believe it was a hospital for TB recuperation

     

    http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-pcha-childrens-sanatorium-outing-to-cresswell-1930/

  12. \i have not seen much coverage in the UK press or news about  this.

    Poor deluded Mr Juncker blames poor Donald Trumps  support for the British exit from the European Union, Don has EU boss Jean-Claude Juncker all worked up threatening  If the president doesn’t begin showing more U.S. support for the EU, he says, he’ll personally lead an effort to break apart the United States :lol: 

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/785813/European-Union-EU-boss-threatens-break-up-US-retaliation-Trump-Brexit-support

    I am sure Don will worry himself sick over Junckers  jabber.

     

     

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