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Monthly Archives: January 2024

Ministry of Justice thanks NYE

Ministry of Justice thanks NYE TIM HICKS reports… ~~~~~ Introduction: MoJ acts on SLAPPs In a previous article, I reported that Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab had launched an urgent call for evidence in response to the challenges presented by the increasing [...]

July 30, 2022 North Yorkshire Police, North Yorkshire Police & Crime Commissioner

UNANIMOUS: YCBID UNTENABLE

UNANIMOUS: YCBID UNTENABLE – an “In My View Article” by NIGEL WARD, offering a seasoned interpretation of events at Scarborough Town Hall on the occasion of the Motion calling for a Vote of No Confidence in Yorkshire Coast BID Ltd. [...]

July 29, 2022 Scarborough Borough Council, Uncategorized

BID: Opportunity Knocks, Ben Gilligan

Another very timely Letter to the Editor from HERO SUMNER, Chair of the Yorkshire Coast Levy Payers’ Association (YCLPA) and Whitby Town Councillor (WTC), who writes to clarify a small oversight of an instance of second sight on the part [...]

July 27, 2022 Scarborough Borough Council

BID: Businesses are Revolting!

BID Protests at Fever Pitch – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reproducing, in the public interest, a welter of appeals by business proprietors – including former YCBID Directors – urging Councillors to support the Vote of No [...]

July 27, 2022 Scarborough Borough Council

“The Burning Question”

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

July 26, 2022 Photoons

Lying Copper Caught Red-Handed Committing Crime?

In recent months the activities of minor political parties and groups have commenced in North Yorkshire. The reason for the activity is UK Government plans to dump 1,500 male, fighting age, economic migrants in the sleepy North Yorkshire village of [...]

July 25, 2022 North Yorkshire Police

Wheels within Wheels on the Bus…

A Letter to the Editor from HERO SUMNER, Whitby Town Councillor (WTC) and Chair of the Yorkshire Coast Levy Payers’ Association (YCLPA), who wonders, perhaps, if there is any discernible distinction between a gravy train and a gravy bus. ~~~~~ [...]

July 24, 2022 Letters

YCBID: Coup de Grâce

YCBID: Coup de Grâce – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, pointing the way to the long-awaited termination of YCBID Ltd. ~~~~~ A Report to SBC’s Audit Committee meeting scheduled for 21st July 2022, signed off by Legal [...]

July 21, 2022 East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Scarborough Borough Council

LCBID: “The Lincolnshire Poacher”

A Letter to the Editor from TONY KELLY, a Skegness publican, who is confronting very similar shenanigans with East Lindsay District Council and  Lincolnshire Coast Business Improvements District Ltd – LCBID – another manifestation of the same leaches-on-leaches syndrome well-known [...]

July 18, 2022 Scarborough Borough Council

Suffer The Little Children?

Suffer The Little Children? – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, highlighting what many would see as a resignation-worthy blunder by a long-serving East Riding ‘politician’. ~~~~~ Having watched the East Riding of Yorkshire Council meeting of Full [...]

July 16, 2022 East Riding of Yorkshire Council