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North Yorks Enquirer

Yearly Archives: 2024

“Body Count”

In a satirical spirit, the North Yorks Enquirer presents the two-hundred-and-twenty-fourth 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 [...]

April 4, 2021 Photoons

Coming Soon to North Yorkshire?

Coming Soon to North Yorkshire? by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Background: The Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill Recently demonstrators and protestors have changed tactics. They have avoided violent protest, preferring to use disruption tactics to bring cities and transport to [...]

April 3, 2021 Police

Liverpool -v- Scarborough

Liverpool -v- Scarborough Guest Author NORMAN MURPHY draws some interesting parallels. ~~~~~ As many of you will have seen, Local Government Minister, Robert Jenrick, has recently intervened in the running of Labour controlled Liverpool City Council. Jenrick was forced to [...]

April 2, 2021 Scarborough Borough Council

The Deadly Scarborough & Whitby Pandemic

The past year has been the strangest I’ve ever experienced. Listening to the UK Government and their media you’d think there was a deadly virus stalking the land, killing off the young and old alike, removing the healthy and vulnerable [...]

March 31, 2021 Scarborough Borough Council

“Dead & Buried”

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

March 30, 2021 Photoons

De-Politicising the Police

De-Politicising the Police Introducing KEITH TORDOFF MBE – the totally Independent candidate in the forthcoming election for the position of Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire taking place on Thursday 6th May 2021. If you believe, as I [...]

March 28, 2021 North Yorkshire Police & Crime Commissioner

Police Misogyny: Toms’* Lives Matter 1: “Hope”

Tim Hicks writes on a deeply disturbing set of correspondence from the Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police (NYP) concerning her refusal to investigate Scarborough’s greatest murder mystery, because the victim is thought to be a prostitute. *Tim is originally [...]

March 25, 2021 North Yorkshire Police, North Yorkshire Police & Crime Commissioner

Council ‘Protocols’

Council ‘Protocols’ NYE harbours correspondent ALLAN ROBERTS identifies another glaring example of SBC double standards. ~~~~~ If I may refer to the recent NYE article, and in particular to this snippet taken from that article: With reference by the requestor [...]

March 24, 2021 Scarborough Borough Council

Yorkshire Coast Deserves Better than YCBID 

Yorkshire Coast Deserves Better than YCBID  A very timely Letter to the Editor from a local businessman, criticising the establishment and performance of the Yorkshire Coast BID. ~~~~~ Dear Sir, It will be nearly 2 years this August that the [...]

March 23, 2021 Letters

Open Letter to the SBC CEO

Open Letter to the SBC CEO by NIGEL WARD ~~~~~ Foreword On Monday 15th March 2021, I provided SBC’s Chair of Audit Councillor Andrew BACKHOUSE [Ind.] with a courtesy copy of the following Open Letter to CEO Mike GREENE. Late [...]

March 21, 2021 Scarborough Borough Council