Stakesby By-Election RESULTS A total of 252 electors of Whitby’s Stakesby Ward (10.48%) may congratulate themselves this evening on having actually elected a Councillor to Whitby Town Council – the first Councillor to be elected by ballot for more years [...]
WTC: STAKESBY WARD BY-ELECTION – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, previewing the by-election for the Casual Vacancy at Whitby Town Council’s Stakesby Ward, to be held on Thursday 20th June 2024. The Polling Station – at Marton [...]
Who is Roberto Weeden-Sanz? Other than being the director of a London property management company, he was parachuted into Scarborough and Whitby to be the 2024 General Election Candidate for the Conservative Party. You remember the Conservatives? Those lovely people [...]
Vexatious Potto 3 (Pt.3) – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, investigating the dénouement of the dilemma facing Cllr Andrew WILDE, unelected Chair of Potto Parish Council, at the Upper Tribunal. Readers may recall that, in Part 2 of this series, he faced [...]
A Letter to the Editor from former Scarborough Borough Councillor GUY SMITH, lamenting the lack of action in response to shameful bathing water quality on the North Yorkshire coast. ~~~~~ Dear Editor As we all know, there have been many [...]
A Letter to the Editor from Bridlington businessman, Phill Hardacre, commenting on the long-awaited demise of Yorkshire Coast BID Ltd following a humilating 86% defeat in the renewal ballot (see below). ~~~~~ Dear Mr Editor I see that Mr Clive [...]
NYP Officers Investigated re Child Abuse (Pt.3) by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Introduction The NYE has run two articles on Operation Magnolia, which is the Cleveland Police investigation into allegations that boys between the ages of 12 and 17 were physically, [...]
Vexatious Potto 3 (Pt.2) – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, investigating further fall-out from Potto Parish Council’s Upper Tribunal UT13 form, arising from another serious failure of sound Leadership, Governance and Accountability. ~~~~~ Potto Parish Council has [...]
NYP Officers Investigated re: Child Abuse (Pt. 2) by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Introduction In my article NYP Officers Investigated re: Child Abuse (Part 1), I revealed that Cleveland Police are investigating Officers from North Yorkshire Police (NYP) in connection with [...]
Guido Fawkes on Whitby (?) Candidate Oh, dear. Oh, dear. The Guido Fawkes website (https://order-order.com/2022/05/03/labour-also-run-out-of-local-voter-endorsements/) has unearthed a spot of Labour/ex-Labour hilarity in various forthcoming elections. Former Labour stalwart Asa JONES – the recently-resigned member of Whitby Town Council, who [...]
