Five years ago Nigel, Tim and I appeared on BBC1’s regional investigative journalism show Inside Out. It took a closer look at our fledgling attempts at investigative journalism to see if our claims would stand up. The show headlined with [...]
Urgent Appeal re Missing Pickering Man Officers have issued an urgent appeal to help find a man missing from Pickering. 50-year-old Nicholas Harper was last seen leaving his home address in Pickering in his black 15-reg Citroen Picasso to go [...]
SBC: Fiddling with the ICO – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, highlighting yet another potentially criminal cock-up by our least-favourite public body. ~~~~~ One may learn a great deal about Scarborough Borough Council simply by examining the [...]
PFCC Julia Mulligan Fights and Bites Back by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Background Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner (PFCC) for North Yorkshire Julia Mulligan has recently announced that she was raped as a fifteen-year-old. This has generated considerable press interest. For [...]
Panel Rejects MULLIGAN’s’s 10% Council Tax Increase The North Yorkshire Police, Fire & Crime Panel has vetoed an increase of over 10 per cent in Council Tax proposed by Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner, Mrs Julia MULLIGAN. Expressing concerns that [...]
Data from the Tax Payer’s Alliance has been released which shows historical data regarding cumulative Council Tax (CT) rises spanning the last twenty years. 2018/19 Council Tax budgets are currently being voted upon. North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) will be [...]
In a satirical spirit, the North Yorks Enquirer presents the one-hundred-and-sixty-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 far beyond. Readers [...]
The German Alpamare Saga Guest Author Councillor Michelle DONOHUE-MONCRIEFF [Ind.Ind.] shares a personal view on the Alpamare saga. For those who missed local media reports on Thursday’s meeting of SBC’s Audit Committee, Finance Director Nick EDWARDS allegedly stated, in regard [...]
N. Yorkshire’s Poor Relations an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, lamenting further evidence that the Borough of Scarborough is nowhere near to fulfilling its service potential. Is an increase in Council Tax the answer? Or a decrease in [...]
