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Dick Barton ... not so special agent.

Prague...Prague...Prague...Prague

Oooh Byker, Byker, Ooooh Byker, Byker BOOKS!
Good News!My crime fiction novel 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' will be published by Byker Books next summer - a release date of July has been tentatively mooted.This will put me shoulder to shoulder on their list with Danny King whose comic crime book 'More Burglar Diaries' they recently launched. You can buy it here at a discounted price incidentally:-

IF...by Geordie Kipling
I found this on the Newcastle United Supporters Trust website - it's brilliant!IF you can keep your name when other clubs Are losing theirs and blaming it on the latest coup,If you can trust yourself when Ashley betrays you,But make allowance for his betrayal too;If you can wait for him to go and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied to, don't believe his lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating him,And yet don't like, nor talk of Dennis Wise:If you can dream of promotion - and not make it your master;If you can drink brown ale - and not make fighting your aim;If you can

You fat cockney bastard, get out of our club.
Mike 'The Proven Liar' Ashley has now declared he is going to take Newcastle Utd off the market as 'no-one has met the £80m asking price'. Call me pedantic BUT that's the same price Birmingham City went for in about two minutes, Everton are asking for £300m and even shitholes like Sunderland have changed hands for that sort of money recently. Now consider our position, we're top of a very average league with a squad made up of cast offs and youth team players, we're getting bigger crowds than Chelsea do in the champions league and Liverpool did against Man Utd and the fat liar reckons he can't sell the club for £80million! No-one believes you anymore Mike you dishonest, corrupt, obese pa

Joined up government?
Does anything actually work like it's supposed to in this country?The Transport System. You can't drive anywhere without half the roads being closed or full of traffic cones that cause tailbacks and make you slow to a crawl so workers that aren't actually there are protected...and don't get me started on the fucking abortion that is the train service.The child protection mob - whatever they're called. They aren't fit for purpose whichever way you look at it as every day brings another story of some poor little sod being abused in one way or another and another head of whichever department for pointless jobs hanging on for the payoff without even apologising.

I'm a bit narked me like...
Alreet kids,I've just been reading a lot of the reporting on Wor Bobby Robsons memorial yesterday and have to say that I find it a little hypocritical of the various media types,and especially their editors, to be talking about the man in such glowing terms.They seem to forget that when he was Newcastle manager they mocked him for basically being over 65. They took the piss at every possible opportunity because he couldn't remember names and they got themselves all in a moral frenzy every time a Newcastle player did something wrong and implied it was down to Bobby 'losing the dressing room' - don't recall them saying owt like that when Gerrard lamped that bloke three