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Monthly Archives: February 2024

“ARGOS – in the Wake of Titanic”

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

August 9, 2019 Photoons

Appeal re Whitby vehicle criminal damage 

Appeal re Whitby vehicle criminal damage  North Yorkshire Police is appealing for witnesses and information about criminal damage to a vehicle that occurred in Whitby. It happened at a car park at the rear of Kirby Flats, East Terrace, Whitby, [...]

August 7, 2019 Appeals

“DBID: A Boulder in their Waders”

“A Boulder in their Waders” Guest Author NORMAN MURPHY, the long-serving former Scarborough Borough Councillor, updates readers on the mounting eruption of dissent against the Yorkshire Coast DBID. ~~~~~ Although the previous worse-than-useless, many say, Conservative Council administration has now [...]

August 7, 2019 Scarborough Borough Council

SBC + CCTV = GDPR CHAOS

SBC + CCTV = GDPR CHAOS an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, pointing out a fatal flaw in the Council’s CCTV coverage. ~~~~~ Hard on the heels of my recent exposure of the absurdities of the Scarborough Borough [...]

August 6, 2019 Scarborough Borough Council

Anti-DBID Meeting in Whitby

Anti-DBID Meeting in Whitby A number of Whitby business proprietors, under the banner “Yorkshire Coast Levy Payers Association”, have organised a meeting to discuss opposition to the Yorkshire Coast Business DBID, which seeks to impose a compulsory Levy on businesses [...]

August 4, 2019 East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Scarborough Borough Council

“Pot, Kettle, Black”

An Open Letter to Derek by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Dear Derek, Open Letter re Conduct of Council Officers Hope you don’t mind me addressing you by your first name, but we have been corresponding for so long and I have [...]

August 3, 2019 Letters, Scarborough Borough Council

Another Letter to the Chief

Another Letter to the Chief by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Further to my article A Letter from the Chief in which I commented on the inability of Chief Constable Winward to understand and embrace new media, as a way of improving [...]

August 2, 2019 North Yorkshire Police