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Monthly Archives: January 2024

SBC CEO Job Applicants ‘Potential’ Data Leak

SBC CEO Job Applicants ‘Potential’ Data Leak an Open Letter from NIGEL WARD to Councillor Steve SIDDONS [Lab.], Leader of Scarborough Borough Council, seeking some of his much-vaunted “openness and transparency”. ~~~~~ Cllr. Steve SIDDONS – Leader – Scarborough Borough [...]

June 30, 2019 Letters, Scarborough Borough Council

“It’s the Taking Part that Counts”

“It’s the Taking Part that Counts” an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, examining just one of the initial actions/omissions of the new administration in Scarborough – one that (like the PSPO fiasco) has Legal & Democratic Services’ fingerprints [...]

June 28, 2019 Scarborough Borough Council

“Senior Service -v- Self Service”

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

June 27, 2019 North Yorkshire Police, Photoons

“Hope”: New Evidence

“Hope”: New Evidence by Chris Clark and Tim Hicks ~~~~~ 1. Introduction: “Hope” For some time, the NYE has been covering “Yorkshire Ripper” Peter Sutcliffe and his potential involvement in many more murders than those for which he was convicted. [...]

June 26, 2019 North Yorkshire Police

SBC ‘Car Cruising’ PSPO Challenged 

SBC ‘Car Cruising’ PSPO Challenged  Oops! It would appear that Mrs DIXON’s SBC Legal & Democratic Services department has dropped another costly gaffe. Scarborough Borough Council has received a challenge to the legal status and enforceability of its ‘Car Cruising’ [...]

June 25, 2019 Scarborough Borough Council

Skullduggery in Higher Places?

In today’s Letter to the Editor, Filey resident JOHN MOOK offers a personal opinion on some very strange Planning activities at the by-now infamous HA24 development in Filey which have all the makings of . . . – THE NEXT [...]

June 24, 2019 Letters, Scarborough Borough Council

PFCC Mulligan: The Royal Navy Comparison

PFCC Mulligan: The Royal Navy Comparison by TIM HICKS ~~~~~  Introduction: Commodore Cooke-Priest: A tale of two services. The NYE readership is both thinking and articulate, and well versed in current affairs. They will all be aware of the case [...]

June 23, 2019 North Yorkshire Police, North Yorkshire Police & Crime Commissioner

Avon & Somerset Constabulary: Appeal for Assistance 

Avon & Somerset Constabulary: Appeal for Assistance  by TIM HICKS & CHRIS CLARK ~~~~~ Regular readers of the NYE will remember that in our article “Christopher Halliwell: How Many Victims?”, Chris Clark and I covered the murder in 1984 of [...]

June 21, 2019 Appeals, Police

URGENT APPEAL: re dark-coloured Vauxhall Mokka following fatal A171 collision

URGENT APPEAL: re dark-coloured Vauxhall Mokka following Fatal A171 Collision North Yorkshire Police has issued an urgent appeal to trace the occupants of car which may have witnessed a fatal collision on the A171 between Whitby and Scarborough. It happened [...]

June 19, 2019 Appeals

“Backward In Coming Forward”

In confirmation of reports suggesting that the Scarborough Borough Council Forward Plan has been delayed for want of a signature (from the Portfolio Holder for Economy, Communities & Commercial Councillor Liz COLLING [Lab.], who has apparently been on holiday), Councillor [...]

June 18, 2019 Letters