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Yearly Archives: 2024

NYMR Wins Lottery Grant

NYMR Wins Lottery Grant As well as covering Crime and Parliamentary Affairs, Tim Hicks is also the NYE correspondent covering the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR). Tim maintains that his is by far the most enjoyable part of his duties [...]

May 25, 2019 Misc

Did Halliwell Murder Claudia Lawrence?

5.11: York: Did Halliwell Murder Claudia Lawrence? 3. Post Mortem on the Failure of Operation Essence 1 Initial success by Chris Clark & Tim Hicks ~~~~~ Introduction This article is Part 3 of the NYE’s series of six articles investigating [...]

May 23, 2019 North Yorkshire Police

“Afterquakes”

A Letter to the Editor from Councillor Michelle DONOHUE-MONCRIEFF [Ind.] (Hunmanby) reflecting on the collapse of the Tory majority – and warning of a potential BASTIMAN-led Tory rebound, given the merest hint of a fault-line in the bedrock of the [...]

May 22, 2019 Letters

“Alas, Poor Hebo! I Knew Him Well”

“Alas, Poor Hebo! I Knew Him Well” Open Letters to the present and (recent) past Leaders of Scarborough Borough Council by TIM HICKS – one in earnest, one in jest. ~~~~~ Open letter re: Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) policy towards [...]

May 20, 2019 Letters, Scarborough Borough Council

“Wildly Conflicting Views” [Letters]

Two wildly conflicting Letters to the Editor – from regulars NORMAN MURPHY and FRANK SHEPHERD – commenting, respectively, on factors contributing to the outcome of the recent local elections and the portends for the future under a new regime. ~~~~~ [...]

May 17, 2019 Letters, Scarborough Borough Council

The Bristol & Hereford Connections (and Conundrums)

The Bristol & Hereford Connections (and Conundrums) by TIM HICKS ~~~~~  Introduction: Chief Constable Winward’s membership of the FBINAA The Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police (NYP), Lisa Winward, is a graduate of the FBI National Academy (FBINA) in Quantico, [...]

May 16, 2019 Police

No Holiday From RIPA

There is much disquiet among Scarborough Borough Councillors regarding the delay in appointments to council committees and outside bodies. The appointments, which will put a few extra quid in the pockets of experienced councillors, are normally tied up quickly after [...]

May 15, 2019 Scarborough Borough Council

“D.I.Y. Demolitions”

A Letter to the Editor from Scarborough resident ALI WILKINS, who has picked up on a cool half-million (or two) that will come as a surprise to many. ~~~ Nobody could fail to have noticed the changes at SBC over [...]

May 12, 2019 Letters, Scarborough Borough Council

JANNER: NYE Vindicated Again

JANNER: NYE Vindicated Again by TIM HICKS  ~~~~~ Introduction Long-term NYE readers will know that as well as covering local news, we occasionally foray out into national stories. Our coverage of the Greville Janner scandal (more properly Greville Ewan Janner, [...]

May 11, 2019 Police

Appeal: To Locate Peter Brown – MISSING from Scarborough

Appeal: To Locate Peter Brown – MISSING from Scarborough Police are appealing for the public’s help to locate a missing man. Peter Brown, 46, from the Whitby area – pictured above – went missing from Scarborough on the afternoon of [...]

May 9, 2019 Appeals