Just following on from this conversation from the Washington Area Developments thread:

(11 Jul 2013, 7:31 pm)gtomlinson wrote I find it odd that the Competition Commission ruled that ASDA could not have Birtley Netto and were forced to sell it to the Co-Op due to the locale of the Galleries Asda but it's ok for Morrisons to have a 30,000sq foot supermarket in Birtley (construction starting August) and plan for another 30,000sq foot in Washington

Well, I had the pleasure of visiting Blyth today. I drove into the town centre from Cowpen and stopped to buy a drink from the large ASDA located there. Afterwards, I got back into my car to continue my journey down the A193 into Blyth. About 5 minutes down the road I noticed a smaller ASDA (ex-Netto) Supermarket and it got me thinking about the points raised in the quote above.

It does strike me as odd this ruling by the Competition Commission about Birtley as the ASDA at Cowpen is probably larger than the one at Washington and also the fact that there are two ASDA's positioned on the same stretch of road in the same town. So does anyone have any explanations or theories why two ASDAs can exist in Blyth, but not in Washington and Birtley?

The next phase of planned improvements to Seaburn seafront has being put up on the Sunderland City council site.


here is the new road layout on a map...


http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/media/image...educed.jpg


Improvements to Whitburn Road will be the second phase of works using Coastal Communities Funding
The work is expected to start in early 2014.

Just wondering out loud here but when I quote a reply to a thread, is there a way to not quote the rest of the conversation?

Ie

I like Buses

I like buses too

I like red buses

I like yellow ones

I know I can delete it but with most I'm thinking VBulletin it would only quote the last quote. If someone doesn't delete it can add a huge length to threads.

Just wondering if its a default setting or if you guys prefer it that way?

Hi all
Tomorrow see's another round of rail replacements.
Coaches replace buses between Darlington and Middlesbrough all day
http://www.northernrail.org/pdfs/trackwo..._-_SLB.pdf

Also, between Middlesbrough and Sunderland until 1230
http://www.northernrail.org/pdfs/trackwo..._-_NUN.pdf

Both are Northern Rail routes and are therefore to be covered by First Rail Support. Likely to see operators such as Classic, Compass Royston, Croft Coach Travel, Enterprise Travel, Jim Hughes, M&D Travel, Stagecarriage

Haven't been on this side of Edinburgh for a year, but excellent progress being made (at long last) on the tram system heading out of town.
It looks like they are currently working on the electrics heading North West, paralell to the M8/Falkirk railway.

2. If no.1 gets nowhere, then a third party can step in as a mediator, this could be an admin or another member of the forum.

Forgot to say, I would happily anyone that's needed

Simple... the song's u secretly like but embarrassed by it...

Ill start

Enya - Orinoco Flow

Probley's because it was the song what was always playing when i went in to assembly at primary school haha

S Club 7 - Reach - i remember doing this for an assembly at primary school to.. bloody 90's

all footie banter goes here

Would it ever be possible to install tapatalk onto the site.

For those who don't know, Tapatalk is a Smartphone application where all your forums that you regularly use is one place, with quick access to every forum your registered on.

I currently use tapatalk to access 5 forums, there all in one place making it easy for me to keep tabs on the sites I am registered at.

So, I was wondering if the mods here would ever be prepared to have a look at possibly putting this board into tapatalk for us smartphone users

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News, debate and discussion on London's Bus Operations.

As the NBFL has struck discussion in other parts of the forum, it seems appropriate to mention this one!
It appears that a NBFL was involved in a minor incident towards the end of last month.


Photo credit to "Dave Curly Coles" on Facebook.
Source: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1...=1&theater