Spotlight
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 [...]
Long have folks in Scarborough & Whitby known that the local MP is about as much use as one-legged man in an arse kicking competition, but now the readers of the Folkestone Herald know it. Great headline and photo! [Photoon [...]
Tom Fox’s taxi service is up for discussion at the Council today. The Resources Scrutiny Committee is meeting today and one of the items for discussion is the Mayor’s contract for ‘Chauffeur & Attendant Services’. The original decision to award [...]
The name of the former Head of Technical Services at Scarborough Borough Council (SBC), John Riby, was mentioned in dispatches during the 14th July 2015 Cabinet meeting. The portion of meeting concerned was the renewal of sea defences at The [...]
Strange occurrences over at the Wayback Machine, the Internet’s de facto standard for archiving web pages. The timestamp data from the site has previously been used in a court of law. The well renowned site contains an archived URL for [...]
Carl Les has become the new leader of the Conservative group on North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC). Les was unopposed for the post. It is now expected that Cllr Les will become the new leader of NYCC when it meets [...]
As residents of Scarborough town centre are aware, since the last millennium a Controlled Parking Zone or CPZ has been in place to control on-street parking. The scheme was introduced to the folks in the town centre as a residential [...]
Foot in mouth time over at the Tory Scarborough News. At 15.23 today the Scarborough News published an article about two women who were convicted of a “racial and homophobic attack” last week. In an effort to create a further [...]
A number of Borough traders are reporting that their food hygiene rating has been incorrectly reported by the Scarborough News. Further examination of the data set leads to the Foods Standards Agency (FSA), the government agency tasked with food safety [...]
Featuring in our very first Spot The Difference competition is Peter Wilkinson. Peter is a director of Scarborough UTC Limited, which is the company formed to deliver Scarborough’s new University Technical College (UTC). Partners in the UTC are the University [...]
