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January 15, 2012
Dreaming in kitsch
Obsession with tourism must be troubling me I woke fairly early this morning after a long and troubling dream in which I had just witnessed the opening in fifteen years time of the newest South Shields entertainment initiative. Iain Malcolm South Tyneside’s (by then) veteran Labour Leader had seen his latest dream come to fruition, [...]
January 11, 2012
Relaunch No.6 “Doing the right thing”
Keeping Ed Miliband may be the “right thing” for Cameron Video courtesy of Guido Fawkes. I don’t know how you feel, but I find it rather difficult to “connect” with this bloke, he may want to do the “right thing” but he never sounds right, nor looks right, and as Leader of the Opposition he [...]
January 06, 2012
South Shields call centre back in use
Former Garland’s building sees new occupiers Good to note that (without a lot of publicity) the former CJ Garland’s call centre on Long Row, South Shields is now in the process of firing up its telephone lines again, as a local “outsourcing operation” has moved from the old Co-op building in Jarrow to occupy part [...]
January 02, 2012
2012 predictions
Welcome back my friends. First a bit of music to cheer you all up, and may I extend a big welcome to you all as we begin a New Year in South Tyneside’s first and oldest political blog, I wish you all a Happy New Year and hope that it brings some sort of cheer [...]
December 28, 2011
Cllr. Joan Meeks
Sudden loss of South Tyneside councillor I was greatly saddened to learn today of the rather sudden and untimely loss of Labour councillor Joan Meeks. I had not been intending to return to this page until the New Year, but it would be remiss of me not to record my warm memories and personal [...]
December 19, 2011
Merry Christmas to all
I may not be back for a while. Just as I was about to make a post regarding Cameron, Clegg, Miliband and the Eurozone debt crisis my desktop PC suffered a crisis of its own. Some sort of hardware issue is preventing Windows from booting, so I’m competing for time and space with the kids [...]
December 12, 2011
South Shields’ girls in X Factor win!
Little Mix chased the dream. Exactly two years ago I used this video to illustrate this particular post where I said “I think that South Shields girl Jade Thirlwall should think seriously about having another go at the X Factor, she could well emulate Joe McElderry next year.” OK, so it took a little longer, [...]
December 03, 2011
New South Tyneside mayoral car
Vorsprung durch Technik In a week which has been full of further austerity packages both in the UK and Europe, yes folks the coalition government is failing to meet its own financial targets and must do more of what their EU masters demand, it is good to see that South Tyneside Council is about to [...]
November 28, 2011
South Tyneside’s five month election campaign!
No – honestly, it isn’t until May next year. Surely this must go down as the longest election campaign in South Tyneside’s history, however the Labour Party is already out of the blocks and up and running! Former Mayor John Anglin has announced in a letter to residents of the Beacon and Bents ward in [...]
Nigel Farage – Eurosceptic Rave
Let’s make this viral I came across this via one of the UKIP leader’s tweets, and well goodness me he’s a dance track! The track is called Star Circle 2 by Johnny Slide you can download it from here and perhaps embed it in your own site, spread it around – at least in South [...]
November 23, 2011
Cllr. Khan was unavailable for comment this morning
Oh that does make a pleasant change, but hang on a minute, he has plenty to say this afternoon on his Twitter page where he uses this picture to represent his account. The file is entitled smb.jpg, I wonder if the “m” stands for monkey? Really, there are times when it is better advised to [...]
November 21, 2011
What would Maggie have said?
High level talks Click pictures to enlarge I’m very grateful to former South Shields councillor George Wilkinson who unearthed these pictures from his family album showing George and a very younger yours truly in talks with the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The pictures were taken in March 1982 at the Five Bridges Hotel in [...]
November 20, 2011
Another week dominated by Euro debt crisis
What gives them the right? Apologies for the lack of posts during this past week, it’s been a busy time at work and domestic disaster has struck too, not much has been going on in South Tyneside other than the production of posters invoking us to vote for Little Mix on ITV’s X Factor, however [...]
November 13, 2011
South Shields remembers her fallen.
Remembrance Sunday in South Tyneside As Her Majesty the Queen led the nation’s tributes by paying respect to our fallen heroes at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, here in South Tyneside a number of remembrance events took place around the borough coinciding with the televised event in London. Services were held in South Shields, Jarrow, Hebburn, [...]
November 11, 2011
Acts of remembrance
South Tyneside commences weekend of quiet contemplation It was 93 years ago today that the guns on the Western Front fell silent at the end of the Great War at 11:00, it was supposed to be a war that ended all wars, sadly we were only entering another century littered with conflicts around the globe. [...]
Cllr. David Potts joins UKIP
Party gains first councillor in South Tyneside Cllr. David Potts, the former Conservative then independent representative for Cleadon Village and East Boldon ward in South Tyneside has officially joined the UK Independence Party, there now appears to be little chance at all of him resigning his seat in the near future. He becomes the first [...]
November 10, 2011
Restored to glory!
Brunswick War Memorial restored and unveiled at South Shields Town Hall This is a story which moved me, I’d come across a tiny part of it whilst watching one of Bill Clavery’s DVDs showing his collection of old pictures of the Laygate area of South Shields. Not long after the Armistice at the end of [...]
November 08, 2011
Capstick, Freedom of the Borough – picture special
Memorable day for South Tyneside veteran councillor Yesterday in South Shields Town Hall Cllr. Jimmy Capstick accepted the honour of being installed as a Freeman of the Borough of South Tyneside in a ceremony attended by hundreds of friends, family, ex-councillors and well wishers. It was a very special day for Jimmy, the longest serving [...]
November 06, 2011
South Tyneside celebrates Guy Fawkes Night – first pictures
Thousands enjoy fireworks spectacular Thousands of South Tyneside residents and visitors made their way down to Sandhaven Beach in South Shields this evening for two spectacular firework displays to mark Guy Fawkes Night. The days when you could organise your own display in the back garden or have a bonfire and a “Guy” have long [...]
November 05, 2011
Saturday Sanddancer Scene #38
Antonio Hello and welcome back to the Saturday Sanddancer Scene, where members of Curly’s Corner Shop Message Board compete to have their photographs published here, this time around I asked members to submit portraits, and we had a wide and varied selection of entries. The winning entry comes from Dave Smith, a former South Shields [...]
October 30, 2011
Not the right way
So many things that I said “No” to during the past week. It didn’t help that “Dave’s” coalition government and the Opposition sort of joined forces to whip their MPs to vote against giving us a new referendum on our relationship with the EU, after all it is a totally different beast to the one [...]
October 23, 2011
South Shields Council – 1973
A better looking bunch Click picture to enlarge I bring you this from a very kindly lady from Cleadon Village, who I thank for lending me the publication “South Shields – A story of a town and its people who have lived up to their motto Always Ready” which was published by the old County [...]
October 20, 2011
Council meetings upstaged
South Tyneside’s finest blotted out by dead tyrant. This news will probably never be reported nationally and will struggle to find the first two or three pages of The Shields Gazette tomorrow, as our press go on a frenzied search for sound bites, video clips. and gruesome pictures following the killing of the Libyan “mad [...]
October 17, 2011
Councils maxing out the credit card
A little light relief for South Tyneside tax payers I’m already getting pretty tired of the lacklustre economic performance of the Conservative led coalition government still labouring under the debt burdens left by its predecessor and weighed down by the yolk of the Eurozone debt crisis, the mantras are now ineffective and sharp clear results [...]
October 13, 2011
Capstick – Freeman of the Borough
Veteran South Tyneside councillor to be honoured Councillor Jimmy Capstick the leader of the small South Tyneside Progressive group of councillors is to be awarded the status of Freeman of the Borough, having served the local community for an astonishing 44 years. Jimmy is “old school” Progressive having stuck firmly to the party’s strictly independent [...]
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