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SBC: Who Voted For Jaconelli?

On Monday 12th May 2014 Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) voted to remove the titles of Alderman and Mayor from Conservative Peter Jaconelli. The removal was due to a large number of allegations of child sex abuse, some of them in [...]

December 22, 2014 Scarborough Borough Council

SBC: Futurist Fate Fixed For New Year

Yesterday the Planning & Development Committee of Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) met and decided not to decide upon the method of demolition for the Futurist Theatre, which stands on Foreshore Road, at that time. Members of the committee decided that [...]

December 12, 2014 Scarborough Borough Council

SBC: Why Futurist Demolition Is Illegal

Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) announced it will begin demolition of the Futurist Theatre on Monday 19th January 2015. The announcement was made on planning notices placed outside the theatre. The council has applied to itself for planning permission to determine [...]

December 11, 2014 Scarborough Borough Council

SBC Loses Preferred Bidder Application

Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) has had it’s application to take over the running of the University of Hull’s (UoH) Filey Road campus refused by the University of Hull. The University of Hull decided to pull out of Scarborough and move [...]

November 29, 2014 Scarborough Borough Council

Justice Denied: Death in Custody

A Press TV documentary investigating the death in custody of Christopher Alder, who died on the floor of Queen’s Gardens Police Station in Hull, whilst several members of Humberside Police chatted amongst themselves. [...]

November 25, 2014 Documentaries

Party On Yorkshire Coast Homes!

Staff at Yorkshire Coast Homes attended the 24 Housing Awards ceremony in Birmingham, last night. The result of Yorkshire Coast Homes’ endeavours is that they came Runner-Up in the ‘Social Media Pioneers‘ category, for their services to Tweeting and Facebooking [...]

November 7, 2014 Misc

SBC: D-Day for Futurist

Councillors at Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) will meet on the 12th January 2015 to decide the fate of the Futurist Theatre. It is anticipated that councillors will be voting to bulldoze the theatre regardless of the outcome of Flamingo Land’s [...]

November 6, 2014 Scarborough Borough Council

Bidder B Donates £50k To Conservatives

The name of the developer for the Futurist site, preferred by the Conservative majority on Scarborough Borough Council, has today been revealed by the council. The council’s preferred bidder, known only as Bidder B thus far, is Kirby Misperton based [...]

October 21, 2014 Scarborough Borough Council

Not Feeling Yourself?

York City Council have been responding strangely to a number of Freedom Of Information requests in recent days. Some perfectly reasonable FOI requests are being turned down for the strangest of reasons. In light of the allegations of bullying by [...]

October 17, 2014 City of York Council

SBC: North Bay Nightclub Gets License

A Premises License Application by Alpamare UK Ltd has been granted by the Licensing Sub-Committee of Scarborough Borough Council (SBC), despite 316 objections against opening until 2am. There will be a night club operating at the proposed North Bay Water [...]

October 8, 2014 Scarborough Borough Council