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Yearly Archives: 2024

SBC: A Morally Repugnant Intervention

SBC: A Morally Repugnant Intervention an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, commenting on a most unusual and particularly offensive breach of the Data Protection Act 1998. ~~~~~ Perhaps relatively few readers of the North Yorks Enquirer will be [...]

April 16, 2018 Scarborough Borough Council

Exclusive: Another NYP Crime Recording Scandal

Exclusive: Another NYP Crime Recording Scandal by TIM HICKS Background: The HMICFRS PEEL Assessment HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services has issued its “PEEL Assessment” for Effectiveness on North Yorkshire Police (NYP) for 2017. What is a PEEL [...]

April 16, 2018 North Yorkshire Police

“Wake Up, Bob!”

Scarborough & Whitby MP Robert ‘Farmer Bob’ GOODWILL has ‘sort of’ appealed to his constituents to share with him their opinions on the contentious issue of electric-shock dog collars. It is noteworthy that Mr GOODWILL does not appeal to all [...]

April 15, 2018 Cartoons

Fearnley to fight Scarborough & Whitby for Labour

Fearnley to fight Scarbough & Whitby for Labour PRESS RELEASE Two hundred local Labour Party members met in Scarborough on 7th April to select a candidate for election to Parliament. Hugo Fearnley, 36, a local man who runs a business [...]

April 14, 2018 Misc

RNLI: Up-Dated Press Release

RNLI: Up-Dated Press Release Adrian Carey, RNLI Head of Lifesaving, has provided a new and more detailed press release in regard to the dismissal of Coxswain Mr Tom Clark. Two earlier press releases are shown below. Press Statement Scarborough’s volunteer [...]

April 13, 2018 Misc

SBC: Spotlight on the Directorate

SBC: Spotlight on the Directorate an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, commenting on Councillor Rob BARNETT’s recent Letter to the Editor “Telling It Like It Is” ( 10/04/18), in which he highlighted the lack of transparency inherent in [...]

April 13, 2018 Scarborough Borough Council

NYP: CCTV Image Suspected Fraud Attempt at S’borough Halifax Ba

NYP: CCTV Image Suspected Fraud Attempt at S’borough Halifax Bank Police have released a CCTV image of a woman they want to speak to regarding a suspected attempted fraud. The woman was captured by CCTV cameras entering the Westborough branch [...]

April 12, 2018 Appeals

“Harbour Waste Management”

An Open Letter to SBC Portfolio Holder Councillor Mike COCKERILL [Ind.Ind.] from Whitby harbour-user KEN GRAHAM, in response to the BBC report (see below) entitled “Yorkshire boat owners to dye toilet waste to clean harbour” (covered by Enquirer reporter TIM [...]

April 12, 2018 Letters, Scarborough Borough Council

North Yorkshire Police and Project Servator

North Yorkshire Police and Project Servator by TIM HICKS ~~~ In a recent article, I wrote that “Project Servator is an initiative to disrupt reconnaissance by terrorists planning an attack. The intention being to disrupt terrorist reconnaissance at an early [...]

April 11, 2018 North Yorkshire Police

“Please Think Again, NYMR”

A Letter to the Editor from Margaret DIXON in response to the Enquirer’s recent publication of the TIM HICK’s article “NYMR ‘Railway in Wartime Weekend’ Controversy”, lamenting the cancellation of one part of the the event on grounds of perhaps [...]

April 11, 2018 Letters