Spotlight
WTC Clerk/RFO mislays the ‘plot’ – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on an inexplicable (and inexcusable) deviation from acceptable standards by the Whitby Town Clerk and Responsible Financial Officer, Mr Michael KING, who seems to imagine [...]
WTC: A Wall of Pork Pies – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, updating readers on encouraging developments at Whitby Town Council, the branch of local government that prefers to avoid engagement with the public. ~~~~~ Since my [...]
WTC: Return of the Backstabbers – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, noting the persistence of personal rancour and the blatant disregard of primary Council duties by members of Whitby Town Council (WTC), none of whom, in the [...]
WTC Councillors’ Secret Training? – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, exposing the lengths our paid public servants will go to conceal widespread ignorance, ineptitude and incompetence. ~~~~~ Readers may recall reading a recent article of mine – [...]
POTTO’s Public Humiliation (Pt. 1) – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, providing a wider readership to a humiliating public exposure of Potto Parish Council’s desperate attempts to conceal its appalling performance. ~~~~~ Regular readers may recall that, [...]
POTTO: “Where’s the Money?” (Pt 5) – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, investigating the wild tactics used by Potto Parish Council to circumvent due process, ignore Council procedures – and the law – whilst spending £5,580 of public money on repairs to this [...]
‘Vision for Whitby’ – Survey Results Regular readers may recall an article in the North Yorks Enquirer published on 18th May 2023, promoting the Whitby Community Network’s “Vision for Whitby” consultation, in which approaching 4.6% of the population took part. [...]
POTTO’s “vexatious” claim ruled UNLAWFUL – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, investigating the wild tactics adopted by Potto Parish Council to prevent the ‘inconvenient truths’ about its unlawful activities (ref: Tribunal) and widespread maladministration (ref: PIR) from reaching the public [...]
Yarm Town Council IMPLODING? – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, commenting on a bomb-shell Press Release from the Vice Chair of Yarm Town Council, where an elector inspecting the Annual Accounts – as is every Yarm elector’s [...]
POTTO: Post-PIR Governance & Accountability – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, investigating the validity of Potto Parish Council’s claim, in its February 2023 minutes, that the July 2022 PIR Recommendations had all “been actioned accordingly”. (All Potto articles may be reviewed here). If [...]
