For those to young, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger

These 2 Scums should of being put down but no they got new Identity's, Jon Venables is now rumored to be living in the Sunderland Area...

I bloody hope not but if he is.. i hope he gets the **** kicked out of him


I was 2 year old when it happened and for some reason i remember it all, from the hunt for him to them getting jailed.

It's such a sad story =(

I have a interview with Sunderland Uni tomorrow doing Foundation Degree in Education and Care - really nervous.

Has anyone else here being or at Uni?

(02 Sep 2013, 11:07 pm)ADLEnviro wrote Just to add a bit more to the story........They were sold to an American company, the name of I just cant remember, when still stored at Stagecoach Walkergate depot, on the run up to the Olympics Walkergate needed the space for storing vehicles that would be prepped to go to London. The company was told that they would need to remove the vehicles asap. Alpha then towed them to there yard and basically the company never paid for the storage of the vehicles, they is a court case going on so I cant say anymore.

EDIT just for the record the purchase price of these vehicles cost £5,000 a week spread over the 5 years of the contract, not including the running costs. Total waste of money by Nexus.

Is the reason they were no use for other services that front entrance was too narrow for wheelchairs, necessitating the use of the middle doors, which stops weren't equipped for? I seem to remember that being debated when they were briefly used on the 18, though it seems bonkers to have scrapped 04/05 plates when we still have R-regs in regular service!

Although it isn't likely to be used by anyone currently registered, we have just installed a nice little feature so that guests can now register using their Facebook account. This avoids filling out a registration form, and the usual registration details will be passed over from your Facebook account to your North East Buses account.

Dan

Anything to do with the London Underground, Overground and DLR!

The DLR is brilliant in my opinion, however could be more frequent on some parts of the route! It is very clean, and punctual! Also, the views around the docks are brilliant! What does everyone else think?

On the Underground, my favorite line is the Jubilee line, very modern!

Wouldn't be an off topic forum without one of these Is anybody watching this year? Or does everyone just hate it with a passion?

Discuss.

Does anyone have any ideas on the allocations of the 51/2/3/4?

Also, I think the 51 will be successful, and will run the 307 off the road, what does everyone else think?

(31 Aug 2013, 11:35 pm)gtomlinson wrote I have fond memories of her random trips on the 28. Fantastic legroom.
Turned up on the pre hybrid 21s a fair few times too.

Then again. I liked the Optare Excels....

The Optare Excels were brilliant. I was down Blackpool a few weeks ago, and an ex-GNE Excel pulled up on service 11.

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.