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Monthly Archives: July 2024

The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, pointing up a profligate breach of Tory ‘austerity’. ~~~~~ East Riding of Yorkshire Councillor Andy STRANGEWAY [Ind.] – a sometime contributor to the Enquirer – has taken [...]

May 9, 2018 Scarborough Borough Council

SBC and RIPA

SBC and RIPA by TIM HICKS Introduction I read with great interest the press release by Mr Hugo Fearnley, the Labour Prospective Party Parliamentary Candidate for Scarborough & Whitby in the next General Election, concerning the “Whexit” controversy, which was [...]

May 8, 2018 Scarborough Borough Council

“Careful What You Wish For”

Codhead casts his gaze on the renewed efforts to extricate Whitby from the clutches of Scarborough Borough Council – and wonders whether the consequences of a ‘WHEXIT’ have been exhaustively considered. [Satire] [...]

May 6, 2018 Cartoons

Appeal re Knifepoint Attempted Robbery of Disabled Man

Appeal re Knifepoint Attempted Robbery of Disabled Man Police are appealing for information after a would-be robber ordered a 47-year-old disabled man to give him money. It happened at the bus stop outside Scarborough railway station at 9.05am on Tuesday, [...]

May 5, 2018 Appeals

“TdY: Highways & Byways”

Today’s Letter to the Editor is, in fact, directed to County and Borough Councillor Tony RANDERSON [Lab.], whose recent Letter to the Editor has been widely-acclaimed. Previous correspondent Kevin STAINTON, of Scarborough, now responds to Councillor RANDERSON with some helpful [...]

May 4, 2018 Letters, North Yorkshire County Council

NYP Policy on “Paedophile Hunters”

NYP Policy on “Paedophile Hunters” by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Background I write with a follow up to an ethical dilemma in British Policing which was covered in an article published in the NYE on the 19th September 2017: An ethical [...]

May 3, 2018 North Yorkshire Police

NYP Appeal re Scarborough M&S Theft

NYP Appeal re Scarborough M&S Theft North Yorkshire Police is appealing for witnesses and information about a theft from Marks and Spencer in Scarborough town centre. At around 10.30am on Sunday 18 February 2018, an unknown man and woman have entered the Marks and Spencer [...]

May 2, 2018 Appeals

“The Winning Strategy 3”

In a satirical spirit, the North Yorks Enquirer presents the one hundred and thirty-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 [...]

May 2, 2018 Photoons

HUGO FEARNLEY – Press Release

The office of HUGO FEARNLEY, Scarborough & Whitby Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Labour Party at the next general election, has issued the following Press Release in response to the sitting Conservative MP Robert GOODWILL‘s scathing attack on the instigators [...]

May 1, 2018 Misc

Whitby Parish Poll Aborted

Whitby Parish Poll Aborted – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, clarifying some misconceptions regarding the recently publicised Call for a Parish (Town) Poll in Whitby. ~~~~~ Readers of the Whitby Gazette will be aware that, at a [...]

May 1, 2018 Scarborough Borough Council, Whitby Town