A quick look around Harrogate Borough Council’s (HBC) Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) on Google Streetmap yields a clue where Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) copied their CPZ signage from. Like Scarborough and Whitby, Harrogate’s CPZs do not make a single mention [...]
A quick look around Whitby’s Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) yields a few clues the local authority that implemented it has taken note of previous implementation problems and has smartened up its act. Last week, I posted an adjudication notice from [...]
During May of this year, I wrote an article which detailed why Scarborough’s Residential Parking Zones (CPZs) are a farce. The article highlighted a High Court ruling by Mrs Justice Lang which stated that it was illegal for authorities to [...]
For the second time in six weeks members of the far right English Defence League (EDL) and activists from the hard left group Unite Against Fascism (UAF) aka The Socialist Worker’s Party aka ‘Unity’ marched in Scarborough. A very high [...]
It appears the Scarborough ‘Frack Free’ movement has been heavily infiltrated by the ‘professional’ protesters, placard carriers and self-professed extremists of the Socialist Worker’s Party (SWP). The ‘revolutionary’ party, which covered up nine rapes within its ranks in 2013, appears [...]
The first shots appear to have been fired in the race to become the Conservative candidate for the North Yorkshire Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections. The elections are due to take place in May 2016 and will be hotly [...]
Gasland is a 2010 American documentary written and directed by Josh Fox. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2011, the film focuses on communities in the United States affected by natural gas drilling and, specifically, a method [...]
The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) are currently consulting regarding the suitability of areas around Scarborough & Filey for the controversial Fracking process. There are nine areas under consultation. There are a multitude of concerns surrounding fracking; tankers [...]
The ongoing Calais migrant crisis is still swamping national news. The coverage of mainstream media facts surrounding migration into the UK are somewhat interesting: UK migration "swarm" and other nonsense – some factual perspective : http://t.co/xmzcwQh7WH — alex thomson (@alextomo) [...]
Three months ago I wrote an article about why I thought that Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) handed out in on-street Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) in Scarborough by Scarborough Borough Council (SBC), are handed out with the full knowledge that they’d [...]
