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MorpethWeb - About us
The idea of running an internet portal site for Morpeth came to
me in 1998. Originally, the site was called
www.morpethnet.co.uk and was run entirely independently as a
not-for-profit service until 2004.
In January 2005, funding to greatly expand the scope of the site
was granted by
One North East under the banner of The Market Towns
Initiative, and the site was renamed
www.morpethweb.com. The
site was then run under the direction of
Morpeth Town Council.
When funding from One North East finally ran out, MorpethWeb was
reduced to the form in which you see it today, a much simplified
website, once more run as a not-for-profit enterprise. Modest
advertising income more or less covers its running costs.
During 2010, I entered into negotiation with, and into a
"Gentleman's Agreement" with
Morpeth and District Chamber of Trade to rename, to once
more expand the site and to run it as a fund-raiser for the Chamber
of Trade, with a revenue stream from local advertising. |
Your Webmaster - Dave Pope
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Early in 2011, the officers of the Chamber of Trade decided, without
informing me, that the agreement entered into would not be honoured,
and a web-design company in
Sheffield was given the job of creating a new Morpeth portal
which you can visit at
www.moreinmorpeth.co.uk. There must be around half a dozen
web-design businesses within the Morpeth area, any of which would
have been most grateful for the work of designing either the portal
site, or indeed the
Chamber of Trade's own website which was
designed in Gosforth. Prior to the launch of the Chamber of
Trade's portal site, I felt it wise to take precautions to protect
my intellectual property rights, but this resulted in a threat of
legal action from the Chamber of Trade. On consideration, I had not
the will to contest this case, and was
unwilling to waste financial resources on such a minor matter. An
offer made through their solicitors to negotiate a compromise was
interpreted by the Chamber of Trade as an attempt on my part to
elicit financial gain from them, indeed as an attempt by me to
bankrupt the Chamber. This is ill-informed, arrant nonsense.
Apart from the years in which the site was funded by One North
East, it has never been my intention to benefit financially from
running a portal site for Morpeth. I can only express regret,
disappointment and disillusionment at the way the situation has evolved.
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