In a satirical spirit, the North Yorks Enquirer presents the seventy-ninth 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 [...]
February 16, 2016
Photoons
An Open Letter/Email to Robert Goodwill MP – from Mike Ward, former Chair of the Eskdale School Board of Governors, to Scarborough & Whitby Member of Parliament Robert Goodwill. (The ‘comments and letters’ to which Mike refers in his text [...]
NYP: Witness Appeal re £15,000 Vandalism North Yorkshire Police is appealing for witnesses and information about criminal damage that occurred on Valley Road, Scarborough on Wednesday 13th January. [...]
February 13, 2016
Appeals
Today’s Guest Author slot goes to the Whitby Beacon Town Forum, bringing news of another example of ‘done deal’ local governance, hard on the heels of the proposed closure by North Yorkshire County Council – first by stealth, then by [...]
NYP: Appeal re Baseball Bat Attack In Whitby North Yorkshire Police is appealing for witnesses and information about an assault that occurred in Whitby. [...]
February 12, 2016
Appeals
Guest Author Mike WARD, former Chair of the Eskdale School Board of Governors, identifies a practicable alternative to Pete DWYER’s Report to County Councillor Arthur BARKER; an alternative that is conspicuously absent from the Report – and, more importantly, from [...]
Eskdale School: Consultation County Councillor Arthur Barker, Executive Member for Children & Young Peoples’ Services, has kindly provided a copy of Pete DWYER’s Report of 9th February 2016, recommending that the Executive Member should “give approval to consult on a [...]
NYP: Whitby Police Witness Appeal re Serious Assault North Yorkshire Police is appealing for witnesses and information about a serious assault that occurred in Whitby town centre just before Christmas. [...]
“CORRUPTOPHENIA” – The Sequel an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, updating readers with the sequel to a curiously prophetic (and purely hypothetical) story of corruption in a local authority in the UK. There will be more in the [...]
A Letter to the Editor from our Crime & Parliamentary Affairs correspondent, Tim HICKS, who writes to up-date readers on an astonishing development (astonishing, that is, were it not for a number of similarly astonishing developments in similarly high-profile cases) [...]