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Yearly Archives: 2024

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

Labour Councillors Investigated

Labour Councillors Investigated Alderman NORMAN MURPHY sets out to explain the external investigations commissioned by SBC in response to multiple allegations of breaches of the Councillors Code of Conduct, the Seven NOLAN Principles of Public Life and the Localism Act 2011. [...]

March 9, 2022 Scarborough Borough Council

Towns Fund: 3 Minutes Past Scrutiny

Towns Fund: 3 Minutes Past Scrutiny – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, examining how the shutters have been slammed down on an attempt to scrutinise machinations involving £20.2million of the public purse. ~~~~~ On 24th February 2022, [...]

March 6, 2022 Scarborough Borough Council

Police 7: Community Policing News Feb. ‘22

The NYE’s Police 7 articles are intended to be a one-stop shop for our readers covering crime prevention advice, court reports, police appeals for assistance, local community policing news, information on victim support, updates from the North Yorkshire Police (NYP) and [...]

March 3, 2022 Appeals, Police

When is a Market NOT a Market?

When is a Market NOT a Market? – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on events at SBC’s Full Council Meeting, where questions over the Masterplan for the so-called ‘regeneration’ of the West Pier saw a number [...]

March 2, 2022 Scarborough Borough Council

Latest Performance at the End of the West Pier

Latest Performance at the End of the West Pier NYE Harbours correspondent ALLAN ROBERTS shines his spotlight on an extraordinary but not entirely successful juggling act. ~~~~~ There are many – especially those within the fishing industry at Scarborough – who [...]

February 28, 2022 Scarborough Borough Council