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Labour Support Futurist Demolition

The final nail in the coffin of Scarborough’s Futurist Theatre appears to have been hammered in by Scarborough & Whitby’s Labour party. The leader of the Scarborough & Whitby Labour party, Cllr Steve Siddons, has confirmed that his party will [...]

January 24, 2016 Scarborough Borough Council

Parking Refunds for Knaresborough?

A quick look around Knaresborough’s Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) on Google Streetmap shows that Harrogate Borough Council (HBC) replicated the Knaresborough signage from their Harrogate CPZs. Like the Harrogate, Scarborough and Whitby’s CPZs, the signage does not make a single [...]

December 22, 2015 Harrogate Borough Council

Parking Refunds On Cards For Harrogate?

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 [...]

December 9, 2015 Harrogate Borough Council

Parking Refunds for Whitby?

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 [...]

December 4, 2015 Scarborough Borough Council

SBC Parking Refunds Ahoy!

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 [...]

November 29, 2015 Scarborough Borough Council

UAF Activists Arrested in Scarborough

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 [...]

November 28, 2015 North Yorkshire Police

Frack Free Movement Infiltrated by SWP

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 [...]

September 15, 2015 Misc

Kenyon-Miller for PCC?

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 [...]

September 3, 2015 North Yorkshire Police & Crime Commissioner

Gasland (2010)

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 [...]

August 21, 2015 Documentaries

Fracking Coming To Scarborough & Filey?

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 [...]

August 21, 2015 Misc