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Monthly Archives: January 2024

“Civic Honour”

In a satirical spirit, the North Yorks Enquirer presents the two-hundred-and-forty-second 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 31, 2022 Photoons

Castle Ward Chair Abandons Residents’ Meeting

Item #1 Item #2 Item #3 Information! … Castle Ward Chair Abandons Residents’ Meeting – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD reporting on extraordinary events at the recent meeting of the combined Castle Ward Tenants’ & Residents Association [...]

March 27, 2022 Scarborough Borough Council

Apology

I would like everyone to be aware that, having been adjudged to have made an error of judgement, I am now acutely sensitive to the fact that not all public servants are as impervious to the comments of ordinary citizens [...]

March 25, 2022 Uncategorized

Met. Police, NYP and Corruption Investigations

Met. Police, NYP and Corruption Investigations by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Introduction Daniel Morgan (pictured above right) was a private investigator who was found murdered in a car park in Sydenham South London in 1987. There were six investigations into Mr [...]

March 24, 2022 North Yorkshire Police, North Yorkshire Police & Crime Commissioner

Labour: “A Rose by Any Other Name”

Labour: “A Rose by Any Other Name” Ahead of the 5th May elections for the new unitary North Yorkshire Council, popular Guest Author Alderman Norman Murphy reviews the Labour Party election blurb. [Part 2 to follow] ~~~~~ As many residents will be [...]

March 21, 2022 Scarborough Borough Council

Dismissed Without Notice

Dismissed Without Notice by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Introduction UK Police Forces now publish Chief Officers’ expenses, to ensure openness and transparency, and to facilitate public, and media scrutiny. In accordance with this policy, this article is one of a series [...]

March 19, 2022 North Yorkshire Police, North Yorkshire Police & Crime Commissioner

“The Last £12M Shag”

In a satirical spirit, the North Yorks Enquirer presents the two-hundred-and-forty-first 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 17, 2022 Photoons

Missing: 1 Boat Hoist

Missing: 1 Boat Hoist NYE Harbours Correspondent ALLAN ROBERTS identifies another significant omission from the Council’s duties to Harbour-users. As ever, ALLAN makes his point by citing the Council’s own words . . . ~~~~~ Scarborough Borough Council claims that part [...]

March 15, 2022 Scarborough Borough Council

Keith Tordoff: ‘Ripper’ Letter

Letter to the Editor from Keith Tordoff MBE For many years, the NYE has been covering unsolved murders that its crime reporting team believes were committed by Peter Sutcliffe. This includes the local murder of “Hope”, also known as the [...]

March 13, 2022 Letters, Police

SBC: Ignorance is Bliss

Attention! … Attention! … SBC: Ignorance is Bliss – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, sharing a one-sided correspondence which raises the question: Where lies the distinction between “ignorant” (as in “lacking the knowledge”) and just plain “ignorant” [...]

March 10, 2022 Scarborough Borough Council