Hope it is ok to post this here, if the Competition Sub Forum is the right place then please move it there...

I am bored at the moment and thought I would post a quiz for members, mostly football, and sprinklings of History, Geography and Cryptic Clues and Anagrams, I trust you guys not to Google the answers, anyone interested, dont reply to this thread, PM me your entry...

The prize for 1st first place is.....(b]ABSOLUTELY NOWT[/b], as I will tally scores for everyone and the overall leader will see there name at the top of a leaderboard, I aslo want to create a score prediction thread.

Heres my first quiz, I will be doing 2 per week, Wednesdays and Sundays each with 10 questions, I am going to start with 10 now

1. How many managers have won tbe Premier League?
2. Dave Beasant made history in 1988, what did he do?
3. Sunderland did in 1979, Villa in 1981, who did it in 1980?
4. Here is Five Football related Anagrams, 1 point for each
4a. Nauseate Brain Dog
4b. Jovial of on Greenshanks
4c. Ribbon Bassy Rob
4d. Cordial or on saint
4e. Is off-centere, unmatched
5. How many times has a British Football team won the Olympics?
6. What was the first game to ever be dubbed 'The Championship of the World'
7. What is the oldest game in english football(any level)
8. Name a team that was part of the foundation of the Premier League, but have never played in it?
9. Where Wimbledon used to play?
10. How many times has a football team from South Shields merged into a Gateshead team?

As I said, if you fancy a crack

News, debate and discussion on Yorkshire's Bus Operations.
Bus operators include the likes of Arriva, First, Stagecoach, and large independents such as EYMS, Harrogate Coach Travel, Tates, TM Travel and Yorkshire Tiger.

From Saturday 31st August (today), Transdev York will no longer run the services shown below.
The services will be operated by Arriva from Monday.

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York City Centre - Acomb

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South Bank - York City Centre - Broadway - Fulford

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York City Centre - Broadway - University of York

Some Transdev York Optare Solos have already begun to appear online, ready to be sold as shown here.

The next set of works in Stockton High St will take place from Monday which will see 4 stands taken out of use, and therefore a number of revised stand locations.
http://www.connectteesvalley.com/data/tr..._end_1.pdf

Who win the Premier League this season, will Jose bring that magic back to the Bridge or Pellegrini at the Etihad, how about David Moyes, will Arsene Wenger end his trophy drought or Tottenham in 2014AB or can Brendan Rogers bring some glory to Anfield

AB=After Bale

So The Tories been made to look like a bunch of tits in front of the world, after Cameron was seemingly adamant we would take military action against Assad, then lost a vote in Parliament...

What is you guys opinions, I personally say well done to the Politicians who pushed through the defeat on Cameron, yes atrocities have been committed and the evidence for such an act is insurmountable, but in my opinion our Arab Allies should be leading the strikes i.e Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and Turkey....

Your opinions guys...Yay or Nay

Thought I'd start this off for things going on around the region (non-transport related) that may be a particular interest to some members.

Proper Food & Drink Festivals - North Shields 2013
http://www.properfoodanddrinkfestivals.co.uk/

Looks a decent day out if you're a fan of proper grub, chilli, and interesting drink. I think I may head across on Saturday.

Caught the tail end of a programme on BBC Parliament earlier (it may be on i-player, haven't checked - 20:10 - 20.55), primarily about Dr Beeching, but it also focused on the investment made by successive Governments since then, both in the nationalised and privatised sector.

It didn't really throw any new light or inform the audience about any new revelations, but it was interesting.

It just got me thinking, was Beeching right? Was he shortsighted? Why have successive Governments barely touched the railway infrastructure since in the way of funding? Why since privatisation, has there been a massive increase in subsidies and also investment in the system - not like anything seen before?

Any thoughts or ideas?

Quite a major bug hit the forum earlier in which a re-install had to take place. Liam has performed this re-install and the forum works again. However, the usual styling of the forum, alongside mobile optimisation etc, will not function correctly until tomorrow at the earliest.
Liam is having a few personal problems, so got the forum back up and running so that it was usable but unfortunately did not have time to fix everything else. In the mean time, we apologise for any inconvenience caused and I will try and get some things done on the fleet lists and Bygone Era tomorrow to make up for it!

Cheers,
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I thought it would be a nice idea to start up this thread. Feel free to post your days out, and also recommendations!

NEB News - http://northeastbuses.co.uk/news.php
Bi-weekly, a news update on Arriva North East, Go North East and Stagecoach North East will be provided - containing all fleet and network updates. Working alongside our fleet lists, we anticipate to update our fleet lists when updates occur and summarise these in a report at the end of the fortnight.


The long awaited release of North East Buses' fleet news section (shortened 'NEB News' for all of you cool kids out there!) has come! The section has seen massive updates occur within the last month, changing our plans from a forum-style update to a new page completely - with opportunities to view all news on one page in an organised fashion and also with opportunities to filter by operator which news you read.

I must take this opportunity to also point out that the news section is indeed still a "work in progress", but has been released publicly to allow for feedback. Because of this, you will continue to see minor cosmetic changes occur to the news section over the course of the next few days, until we think it's fully complete.

When originally designing the news section, our primary concern was to replicate what was already available on the market and improve where we believed areas could be improved. Like all other websites that provide a news section, we intended on focusing directly on fleet news. It soon became apparent to us that we needed to be different, and it was because of this, we decided to include general news items also.

After much discussion, we decided that it was not possible to achieve all that we had proposed on a forum post as we had originally planned. As such, we worked from scratch on the new, revised project - making individual pages to accompany our fleet list section, with this news on them.

You will notice that the news section appears to be split in two. One side holds news with headlines and bigger images, and the other side holds news with smaller images and no headlines. This is what we wanted. We wanted users to be able to distinguish between "big news" and "small news".

The big news (an example is shown in the screenshot below) should be the part of the news that everyone will want to read.


The small news (an example is again shown in the screenshot below) is news that perhaps isn't as noteworthy ('minor' network changes etc) as other events that have occurred in the fortnightly period.


Above I mentioned you could filter the results you see. This can be achieved by clicking the operator's button at the top of the page. If you want to see every news article for that fortnight, fair enough. If you don't and would prefer to see news from Stagecoach only - you click the Stagecoach button!
I associate our news section with a real life newspaper. There are some people who will sit and read through every news article, but the fair majority of people want to have a "quick fix" with something that interests them, and they do this by scanning for words/photographs of interest to them.
It is a little harder to achieve that sort of concept on a website, but filtering results was the way forward!


In the future (before the next update), we will update the news page to include an archive. This will hold all previous articles from a specific date (i.e. today's update will be archived as 25/08/13). The styling and general coding of this page is still a "work in progress" and is certainly not ready to be released just yet. When it is, I'll be sure to give you all a link to it

We'd like to know your opinions on the news section.
Do you like the styling of the page? One of our ideas was to have the news linked to the operator's colour, and you can see how we have achieved this on the news page. We're not sure if it's perfect, but we're also out of ideas on how it could be improved if we were to keep it.
Do you like the ordering of the page? All stories are grouped together on the main page by operator, which is also in alphabetical order (ANE, GNE and then SNE). One of our ideas was to have a jumbled up news section, with news from each operator being provided at various parts of the page. At present, Stagecoach will never appear at the top of the main page - that is the problem with ordering them as we have presently. Alternatives, anyone?!
If you have any other comments/suggestions, they'd be greatly appreciated - you can post them below.

Cheers everyone, and I hope you enjoy the news section!