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North Yorks Enquirer

Yearly Archives: 2024

NYCC/CYPS: “Carry On OfSTED”

NYCC/CYPS: “Carry On OfSTED” an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, flagging up the accumulating signs of a senior management melt-down in the North Yorkshire education sector – and a spectacular OfSTED farce at Caedmon College Whitby. ~~~~~ The [...]

February 2, 2017 North Yorkshire County Council

RDC: “The Velvet-Gloved Fist”

A Letter to the Editor from David SUMMERS, formerly an Officer of Rydale District Council (RDC), who writes to disclose first-hand experience of a culture of bullying in the workplace at RDC. Readers will discern certain parallels with the much-publicised [...]

February 1, 2017 Letters, Ryedale District Council

Labour Cllr Futurist Vote Predetermination

A quick search of the Scarborough Borough Council’s planning portal turns up some interesting information. Labour councillor, Vanda Inman, whose vote condemned the Futurist Theatre to demolition, actually objected to the demolition in 2014. The Labour Councillor immediately contradicted her [...]

January 30, 2017 Scarborough Borough Council

McCAINS: 35 Redundancies Mooted

Reports are reaching the Enquirer to the effect that, pending consultations, the McCAINS plant at Havers Hill, Eastfield, Scarborough has informed members of the work force in the Cold and Dry Store facilities that these functions are to be outsourced, [...]

January 30, 2017 Misc

“Kissing Uranus”

In a satirical spirit, the North Yorks Enquirer presents the ninety-sixth 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 far beyond. Readers [...]

January 30, 2017 Photoons

“Spoon-Fed About Hawsker?”

A Letter to the Editor from TIM HICKS, who writes to point out some telling anomalies in the media statements provided by the various public bodies guarding the deepening mystery surrounding the suspension of Mr CARL HARDWICK, Headteacher of Hawsker Primary [...]

January 27, 2017 Letters, North Yorkshire County Council

PEACOCK Tells Critics To “Get Stuffed!”

PEACOCK Tells Critics To “Get Stuffed!” – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, updating readers on the implosion of an object of contempt. ~~~~~ On the heels of yesterday’s Enquirer revelation of the extraordinary exchange of correspondence between [...]

January 26, 2017 East Riding of Yorkshire Council

SBC: The People Have Spoken

SBC: ‘No Confidence’ Petition – Signatories’ Comments At the request of the Scarborough resident who launched the VOTE of NO CONFIDENCE in the predominantly Conservative Scarborough Borough Council Cabinet of Leader Councillor Derek Bastiman [Con.], readers are invited to inspect [...]

January 26, 2017 Letters, Scarborough Borough Council

NYCC: The DWYER Legacy

NYCC: The DWYER Legacy an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reviewing the tenure of NYCC’s departing Head of CYPS, Pete DWYER. ~~~~~ Following yesterday’s exclusive report in the North Yorks Enquirer to the effect that NYCC’s much-beleaguered Corporate [...]

January 25, 2017 North Yorkshire County Council

ERYC: CEO Nigel PEARSON Demands PEACOCK’s Resignation – In Vain!

ERYC: CEO Nigel PEARSON Demands PEACOCK’s Resignation – In Vain! an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on the penultimate chapter in the deplorable saga of Cllr. Dominic PEACOCK [Con.], desecrator of the memory of Jo COX MP [...]

January 25, 2017 East Riding of Yorkshire Council