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Monthly Archives: March 2024

Book Review: “Basically Innocent?” by David Greenwood

Book Review: “Basically Innocent?” by David Greenwood Reviewed by Tim Hicks Tim Hicks reviews an important new book on sexual abuse in the clergy. As well as being an investigative journalist with experience in exposing paedophilism and a chartered accountant, [...]

February 14, 2020 Misc

URGENT APPEAL re Missing York Man

URGENT APPEAL re Missing York Man Officers searching for a missing York man are appealing to the public to get in touch if anyone may have seen him. David McGourlay, 59 from the Strensall area of York, was last seen [...]

February 12, 2020 Appeals

The Ripper’s Lorry Murders 7

The Ripper’s Lorry Murders 7: Leicester & Nottingham by TIM HICKS & CHRIS CLARK ~~~ Until now, the conventional wisdom was that all of Sutcliffe’s attacks were launched from his car. Chris however was convinced that this was not so [...]

February 12, 2020 Police

“Selective Amnesia”

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

February 10, 2020 Photoons

STRANGEWAY 6 v 0 HDC

STRANGEWAY 6 v 0 HDC Guest Author ANDY STRANGEWAY sums up the first half . . . ~~~~~ Over recent months, Conservative-controlled Hambleton District Council (HDC) has been forced, by an uneducated house painter, to make six U-Turns in relation [...]

February 7, 2020 Hambleton District Council

MP GOODWILL Steps Up – Again!

MP GOODWILL Steps Up – Again! Further to our report earlier in the week (in which Scarborough & Whitby MP Robert GOODWILL’s letter to Sec. of State Robert JENRICK was reproduced in full), it now transpires that Mr GOODWILL has [...]

February 6, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council

Appeal re Scarborough street Assault

Appeal re Scarborough street Assault Police are appealing for witnesses after a man suffered cuts and bruises during an assault. It happened on Morgan Street, Scarborough, at around 6.45am yesterday. The victim, a man in his 40s, was setting off [...]

February 6, 2020 Appeals

Chief Constable Jones and the Manchester grooming scandal

Chief Constable Jones and the Manchester grooming scandal by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Introduction There are currently seven mysteries surrounding North Yorkshire Police (NYP), all of which are under investigation by the NYE. These are: How were Jimmy Savile and Peter [...]

February 4, 2020 North Yorkshire Police, Police

MP Supports Anti-BID Campaign

MP Supports Anti-BID Campaign an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, briefly updating readers on the seemingly interminable Yorkshire Coast BID fiasco. ~~~~~ The Enquirer has been provided with a copy of a letter from Scarborough & Whitby MP, [...]

February 3, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council