Tory-dominated Scarborough Borough Council’s preferred bidder for the Foreshore Road Futurist Theatre site, Flamingo Land Limited and its director Gordon Gibb, have again made sizable donations to the Tory party. The donations, which were recorded on the Electoral Commission web [...]
Guest Author ANDY STRANGEWAY follows up on yesterday’s article with sensational new revelations. ~~~~~ Govt Anti-Motorhome Policy Exposed Yesterday, I revealed that 95% of Motor Caravans cannot be ticketed. This was in fact not correct, but has now been corrected. [...]
The final nail in the coffin of Scarborough’s Futurist Theatre appears to have been hammered in by Scarborough & Whitby’s Labour party. The leader of the Scarborough & Whitby Labour party, Cllr Steve Siddons, has confirmed that his party will [...]
Guest Author Andy STRANGEWAY highlights a glaring and fatal error in the NYCC/SBC ‘No Motor Caravan’ on-street parking regulations. ~~~~~ 95% Of Motor Caravans Unticketable Despite the fact that I have given Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) numerous opportunities, they have not [...]
Eskdale School – Past, Present & Future Ahead of scheduled meetings intended to address the Eskdale School crisis, Guest Author MIKE WARD offers readers the benefit of his knowledge gleaned from nine years experience serving the people of Whitby on [...]
DfE Schools Performance Analysis The Department for Education has today published its 2015 School & College Performance tables. The results for North Yorkshire are reproduced below: See also: Primary Schools http://www.education.gov.uk/cgi-bin/schools/performance/group.pl?qtype=LA&no=815&superview=pri Secondary Schools http://www.education.gov.uk/cgi-bin/schools/performance/group.pl?qtype=LA&no=815&superview=sec Click on the tabs to bring [...]
“Garden Party Glory” – CodHead 083 CodHead seems to have caught wind of a majestic honour in the pipeline for MC and TF – who revel in such meaningless pomp. CodHead wonders if the Mayor might be better wearing his [...]
January 20, 2016
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NYP: CCTV Appeal re Serious Whitby Assault Police have issued CCTV images of a man they would like to speak to about a serious assault in Whitby. [...]
The Eskdale Saga: Death Of A School an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, explaining why the former Chair of the Board of Governors had to be axed at all costs – and the motive behind his ousting. ~~~~~ [...]
A Letter to the Editor from Patricia DAVID of Scarborough, questioning the quality of democratic governance in the Borough of Scarborough. ~~~~~ Dear Editor, Is Scarborough a Democratic Borough? Local Governance throughout the Country is ruled by Local Government Law, [...]