(14 Jan 2017, 4:11 pm)Jamie M wrote Knacked my bike.
Seat became loose and tyres became flat. Long push home, Hebburn to Derwentside...

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(14 Jan 2017, 9:27 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote Oh dear

You could try a Petrol Station's tyre machine to inflate your tyres, Not sure on the Seat though, As it hasn't yet on my bike!

(14 Jan 2017, 10:25 pm)Jimmi wrote I should just give up attempting to be sociable and just lock myself away, at least then I can't annoy anyone.

(14 Jan 2017, 10:33 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote Brilliant feeling to have when ive wasted my own time traveling all the way to Castleside and having to endure 3 hours of Streetlite's to get there to find the bus stop taken by a parked Suburu -
And that the driver parks the Streetlite just on a bend in the road, Enough to make the Sun shine right on the bus, And that half of the church which was to be in the photograph was obscured by the Suburu.

Did enjoy the rest of the day however but for the main reason I travelled all the way there to find that was a serious p*sstake

I'll find a way to photograph one soon

(15 Jan 2017, 9:09 am)Jimmi wrote Heading to Birmingham but currently stuck just outside Northallerton on a VTEC service to York to catch my next train owing to overrunning engineering works. Well that's me missing our connecting train. [emoji35]

(15 Jan 2017, 9:18 am)citaro5284 wrote Mind, you certainly get about  [emoji14]

(15 Jan 2017, 12:44 pm)Michael wrote Freddo's going up to 30p... I remember when they were 10p!!

Looks to be happening in Spring.

(15 Jan 2017, 12:53 am)Jamie M wrote eeeeeeeeee, bad driver! ?
In all fairness, it is annoying, but such is life. Quite a lot of the drivers at Stanley wore humbug hats at Christmas - they'd probably want the sun to spoil all of your fun!

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(15 Jan 2017, 2:03 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote Funny enough when I asked the driver if I had time to photograph the bus, She said yes but only if I didn't get her in the photograph, Which was rather surprising considering she was a very friendly driver!

I'll see if I can get back up for next week!

(15 Jan 2017, 2:33 pm)Jamie M wrote I know most of them up there by name. Quite a lot of them just want to have a bit of privacy. There are quite a lot of quiet drivers up there who just rather get on with it and don't want their face all over the internet. Given it's a new bus, you can appreciate why they ask that.

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(15 Jan 2017, 2:48 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote Aye, I didn't mind it. Atleast she wasn't shouting swear words or pulling her sun visor down over her face like some miserable ones do.

(15 Jan 2017, 4:33 pm)Ds1197 wrote Everytime the bus speeds up my seat tilts back and every time the drive breaks it throws me forward

(15 Jan 2017, 9:09 am)Jimmi wrote Heading to Birmingham but currently stuck just outside Northallerton on a VTEC service to York to catch my next train owing to overrunning engineering works. Well that's me missing our connecting train. [emoji35]

(15 Jan 2017, 5:13 pm)Andreos1 wrote Delay repay Jimmi. There's always a silver lining to these things.

(15 Jan 2017, 5:17 pm)Jamie M wrote I either bus or I drive where bus don't go. You do have to pay for a night's in and fuel, but you are sure to end up in the right place and not end up throwing money down the loo for missing trains etc. Both ways have their pros and cons.

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(15 Jan 2017, 5:26 pm)Andreos1 wrote That's the thing though. Miss a bus through a late connection and you're potentially screwed - especially if it's the last one. Thats money thrown down the loo.
Miss a train through a late connection and you're looking at a refund (at least partial) and potentially a free taxi for the last leg if it was the last train of the night.

I get fed up of driving at times. Done it long enough and after a long day (or longer) working in another part of the country, the last thing I want to do is drive home.

(15 Jan 2017, 5:17 pm)Jamie M wrote I either bus or I drive where bus don't go. You do have to pay for a night's in and fuel, but you are sure to end up in the right place and not end up throwing money down the loo for missing trains etc. Both ways have their pros and cons.

(15 Jan 2017, 5:26 pm)Andreos1 wrote That's the thing though. Miss a bus through a late connection and you're potentially screwed - especially if it's the last one. Thats money thrown down the loo.
Miss a train through a late connection and you're looking at a refund (at least partial) and potentially a free taxi for the last leg if it was the last train of the night.

(16 Jan 2017, 3:07 pm)Michael wrote This prick appeared on my Facebook news feed:

Child killer Ian Huntley wants a sex change at the taxpayers’ expense so that he can spend the rest of his life in a female prison.

The vile Soham murderer, who killed best friends Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, believes it will be cushier than his current sentence at tough HMP Frankland.

He has told fellow lags he will start wearing women’s clothes, underwear and make-up to convince doctors he harbours desires to change his sex.

If given the go-ahead, the £100,000 operation will be paid for by the taxpayer on the NHS.

The double killer is planning on joining Transgender Pathway, which will begin to prepare him for his new life as a woman.

But offenders must pass rigorous psychological tests to show they genuinely want to change sex and are not just looking for special treatment.

Huntley is yet to make a formal request to the governor of Frankland Prison, one of the toughest jails in England, where he is serving a 40-year sentence.

Huntley has discussed his plans with a few close lags, including his new best friend Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe.

One inmate said that the killer is desperate to be removed from the all-male prison after facing years of death threats and assaults.

He has already survived one murder attempt after having his throat slashed by armed robber Damien Fowkes in 2010.

One former inmate said: “Huntley and Sutcliffe are always in and out of each others’ cells. They are both hated by the majority of the inmates because they have showed no remorse for what they have done.

“There are a lot of bad people in Frankland Prison but Huntley is one of the worst. He knows he’s a marked man while he’s in Frankland and he believes his only hope of a cushy life is to become a woman.”

Huntley was given a double life sentence, with a minimum term of 40 years, for the murder of schoolgirls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells in 2002.

The last picture of best friends Holly and Jessica in their red Man Utd football shirts became a haunting symbol of Huntley’s evil.

The snap was taken by Holly’s mum at a barbecue just over an hour before they were brutally murdered.

The matching tops – with United star David’s Beckham’s name and his number 7 on the back – were stripped from the girls’ bodies and found burned and dumped in a bin.

It later emerged the youngsters had stopped to speak to Huntley outside the house he shared with partner Maxine Carr. He invited them in and murdered them.

Huntley claimed in court that Holly suffered a nose bleed and fell into a bath, banging her head and drowning. He said Jessica screamed so he put his hand on her mouth until she stopped.

Their bodies were found six miles from Soham 13 days later. They had been dumped in a ditch near RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk.

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I'll give a sex change, cut it off with a Stanley knife and then leave him like that!

(16 Jan 2017, 3:07 pm)Michael wrote This prick appeared on my Facebook news feed:

Child killer Ian Huntley wants a sex change at the taxpayers’ expense so that he can spend the rest of his life in a female prison.

The vile Soham murderer, who killed best friends Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, believes it will be cushier than his current sentence at tough HMP Frankland.

He has told fellow lags he will start wearing women’s clothes, underwear and make-up to convince doctors he harbours desires to change his sex.

If given the go-ahead, the £100,000 operation will be paid for by the taxpayer on the NHS.

The double killer is planning on joining Transgender Pathway, which will begin to prepare him for his new life as a woman.

But offenders must pass rigorous psychological tests to show they genuinely want to change sex and are not just looking for special treatment.

Huntley is yet to make a formal request to the governor of Frankland Prison, one of the toughest jails in England, where he is serving a 40-year sentence.

Huntley has discussed his plans with a few close lags, including his new best friend Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe.

One inmate said that the killer is desperate to be removed from the all-male prison after facing years of death threats and assaults.

He has already survived one murder attempt after having his throat slashed by armed robber Damien Fowkes in 2010.

One former inmate said: “Huntley and Sutcliffe are always in and out of each others’ cells. They are both hated by the majority of the inmates because they have showed no remorse for what they have done.

“There are a lot of bad people in Frankland Prison but Huntley is one of the worst. He knows he’s a marked man while he’s in Frankland and he believes his only hope of a cushy life is to become a woman.”

Huntley was given a double life sentence, with a minimum term of 40 years, for the murder of schoolgirls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells in 2002.

The last picture of best friends Holly and Jessica in their red Man Utd football shirts became a haunting symbol of Huntley’s evil.

The snap was taken by Holly’s mum at a barbecue just over an hour before they were brutally murdered.

The matching tops – with United star David’s Beckham’s name and his number 7 on the back – were stripped from the girls’ bodies and found burned and dumped in a bin.

It later emerged the youngsters had stopped to speak to Huntley outside the house he shared with partner Maxine Carr. He invited them in and murdered them.

Huntley claimed in court that Holly suffered a nose bleed and fell into a bath, banging her head and drowning. He said Jessica screamed so he put his hand on her mouth until she stopped.

Their bodies were found six miles from Soham 13 days later. They had been dumped in a ditch near RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk.

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I'll give him a sex change, cut it off with a Stanley knife and then leave him like that!

(21 Jan 2017, 3:35 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Bunch of kids on the 7 being so antisocial that they've ended up with the top deck to themselves. Some people decided against even getting on the bus because of the way they barged to the front of the queue and demonstrated their impending failure of both biology and English GCSE in the dirt on the windows.