Renewables? Birds’ Nest Soup! The Enquirer’s very own Harbours correspondent, ALLAN ROBERTS, brings readers an update on the Renewables-Industry/Boat-Hoist Proposal for West Pier, Scarborough. Well done, Alan. The following reality-check appears to have escaped the attention of the local news media. [...]
Scarborough Town Council Elections – May 2025 Today’s highly-informative article heralds the return of “Stormin’ Norman” – Alderman (and former SBC Councillor) Norman Murphy (a present incumbent of the beleaugered Newby & Scalby Town Council), shedding much-needed light in the [...]
N&S Parish Poll Update PRESS RELEASE “In 2020, the Council carried out a survey to get the views of parishioners as to the need for a community wellbeing hub. The local community was overwhelmingly in support of the Council’s proposals [...]
High & Dry in Scarborough Harbour North Yorks Enquirer’s Harbour correspondent ALLAN ROBERTS writes to report the grounding in Scarborough Harbour, at high water, of the replica Spanish galéon “ANDALUCIA” – a humiliation that (as chance would have it) happened [...]
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 [...]
