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SYP: Funding Of Legal Costs A reader has kindly brought our attention to an article on the front page of today’s Yorkshire Post. Regrettably, this front-page article does not appear on the YP web-site. In the public interest, a scan [...]
Northallerton Town Clerk Suspended an “In My View” pre-article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on today’s Darlington & Stockton Times exclusive “Mystery over suspension of Northallerton town clerk”. ~~~~~ The North Yorkshire rumour mill is grinding hard this morning over the [...]
An Open Letter to Scarborough Borough Council, first published in early February 2015 in the Scarborough Review (Scarborough’s new free newspaper) from Michael BECKETT, who is the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Liberal Democrat Party – re-produced here at the [...]
Andrew JONES MP: Post Office ‘Horizon’ Scandal The long-running national scandal surrounding the Post Office ‘Horizon’ accounting software has taken a new turn. The faulty software incorrectly implicated dozens of postmasters/mistresses around the country in allegations of fraudulent activity which [...]
In a satirical spirit, the North Yorks Enquirer presents the thirty-third in a continuing series of so-called “Photoons” – cartoons developed from digital photographs – highlighting the more amusing aspects of current affairs in North Yorkshire and beyond. Readers are [...]
Councils: The Law Is An Ass an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, who, with one eye on the elections, now highlights (again) the all-too-common local authority practice of implementing Bye-Laws for the prime purpose of extorting revenue from [...]
A Letter to the Editor from Derek ROBINSON. Derek writes as a member of the public, though he is a member of Whitby Town (Parish) Council (WTC) and a Ukip candidate in the forthcoming elections for both Scarborough Borough Council [...]
A Letter to the Editor from Karen MILLER of Scarborough, a working mother who writes to express her regret that, like many ordinary people, she has gleaned an insight into questionable practices of local government here in the Borough only [...]
In a satirical spirit, the North Yorks Enquirer presents the thirty-second in a continuing series of so-called “Photoons” – cartoons developed from digital photographs – highlighting the more amusing aspects of current affairs in North Yorkshire and beyond. Readers are [...]
VOTE! Your Vote In order to vote in a Local Government, European or Parliamentary election or in a local or national referendum you must be registered on the Electoral Roll (Register of Electors). The way we all register to vote has [...]
