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McMackem said:
But, rant over, you're spot on about the naming process of the local radios, you get "Coventry & Warwickshire", yet some designed to cover whole regions are named after one place and other get named after whole areas. No logic to it at all. In the North-East its another piece of the whole Newcastle-centric propaganda that the main line railway route opened the door to and the John Hall empire put the cherry on top of the cake of. Both channels in the North-East are laughable in their coverage. It doesn't help that Newcastle starts with N (car reg plates are 'North') and the second letter is E (postcodes NE) - I've heard folk from Newcastle who genuinely thought it was 'Newcastle' in both cases, and so do many around the country I'm sure.
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Don't know about the car plates, but the postcode area is derived from Newcastle, even though it stretches to the border, or are you saying that Sunderland (including Seaham and Peterlee), Durham and Darlington (DA stretches all the way to Richmond and Barney) aren't North East?
 
They have always been minority biased but changed the rules when they decided to charge over75s for licences.
 
TwasOnTheFifthOfMay said:
Don't know about the car plates, but the postcode area is derived from Newcastle, even though it stretches to the border, or are you saying that Sunderland (including Seaham and Peterlee), Durham and Darlington (DA stretches all the way to Richmond and Barney) aren't North East?
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I stand corrected then - could have sworn when we lost the SR postcode we were told or fobbed off with NE being north - east. Swines.
 
For car number plates N stands for the North (East, as the NW gets M for Manchester/Merseyside and P for Preston).

NA to NO are issued in Newcastle, and NP to NY are issued in Stockton.
 
Vioresin Sinani is the all time top goal scorer in the Albanian Superliga. Surprisingly however he only received 4 caps for Albania, his only goal being that which won the Rothmans Cup in 2000

He did receive a later call up for a game versus England B at Turf Moor, but didn’t make it off the bench
 
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Boo said:
All of this made me think of the long term Communist leader of the country, Enver Hoxha. He became famous, mainly, for banning beards in the country. I always thought this was intended to suppress Muslim sentiment, but it turns out that he saw beards as a symbol of decadent Western influence. Hoxha was the first anti-Hipster Head of State.
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I got as far as the Albanian border in 1976. I had a beard. End of story.
 
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stephen cartwright said:
Anyone watched Shinty on there?
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Used to watch the camanachd cup final every year, mainly just to marvel at the insanity of the goalkeepers. No helmets or padding for these fine gentlemen, just a pair of jeans and a trackie top and away they went, trying to stop a rock being fired at them like a missile with their bare hands. It was clearly the position of the village idiot
 
JRisthenewfergie said:
Used to watch the camanachd cup final every year, mainly just to marvel at the insanity of the goalkeepers. No helmets or padding for these fine gentlemen, just a pair of jeans and a trackie top and away they went, trying to stop a rock being fired at them like a missile with their bare hands. It was clearly the position of the village idiot
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:lol: My kind of game
 
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