Dredging the Depths of Fiasco North Yorks Enquirer Harbours correspondent ALLAN ROBERTS, using the Councils’ own data, demonstrates the scarcely-credible scale of incompetence of the Scarborough Harbour Management Team’s mindless squandering of the public purse in pursuit of an extremely [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
YCBID – Is It Right 4 U? Guest Author Alderman NORMAN MURPHY explains the “whys and wherefores” of the Business Improvement District. ~~~~~ Is a Business Improvement District the right option for your area? Before a BID proposal is presented to [...]
“Cowards – One And All” Our Guest Author, Alderman NORMAN MURPHY shares his views on the Prime Minister’s ‘ghost’ visit to Scarborough (as reported in the Enquirer, here). ~~~~~ On 25th January 2024, my birthday as it happens, a very unusual event [...]
WHITBY SECONDARY EDUCATION Today’s Guest Author is former Eskdale School Chair of Governors (and former Scarborough Borough Councillor) MIKE WARD, who writes to comment on recent announcements regarding the future of secondary education in Whitby – and the lamentable (and [...]
NYC Planning Portal Ban – Claim Debunked Campaigner ANDY STRANGEWAY has encountered a ‘strange loop’ in North Yorkshire Council’s ‘cyber security defence’ package that is causing grave interference to Planning Applications – with no Local Plan expected until 2028. Andy [...]
NYC Councillors Speak Guest Author Alderman NORMAN MURPHY writes to record his pleasant surprise at a number of Scarborough North Yorkshire Councillors asking some of the right questions. ~~~~~ I have been moved to put pen to paper to record [...]
North Yorkshire Council media summary w/c November 6, 2023 Martin Feekins, Senior Press and Publications Officer at North Yorkshire Council, has provided Councillors and Officers with a comprehensive summary of press articles during the week commencing Monday 6th November 2023 [...]
Whitby Parish Poll – Results Following a very poor turn-out of only 310 voters, it was unsurprising to learn that from an electorate of 10,103, only 73 votes were cast in support of the present membership of Whitby Town Council [...]
