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All posts by Tim Thorne

North Bay Night Club or Family Water Park?

A premises license application by Alpamare UK Ltd has been made to Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) for the planned North Bay Water Park attraction. The content of the premises license application has come as a shock to residents in Scarborough’s [...]

August 28, 2014 Scarborough Borough Council

Handbags At High Noon?

Bitchy Scarborough and Whitby MP, Robert Goodwill, has taken a swipe at fellow Tory MP Anne McIntosh. McIntosh was recently deselected as Conservative MP for the Thirsk and Malton constituency. The deselection was a result of a long campaign by [...]

August 25, 2014 Misc

Craven District Council Legal Threats

Documentation detailing the termination of Joanna Miller, Craven District Council’s (CDC) Corporate Head of Finance and Section 151 Officer’s employment was placed on the web last week. The documentation detailed the humiliating treatment meted out to Miller, which likely caused [...]

August 23, 2014 Craven District Council

Huge Hambleton Payoffs

August is the time that county, city, district and borough councils across the country throw their books open to the public for scrutiny. Authorities normally publish a draft statement of accounts on their websites and display a hardcopy of those [...]

August 19, 2014 Hambleton District Council

Justice Denied : Harassed by the Police

A Press TV documentary investigating the harassment of London plumber Ian Puddick by City of London Police, insurance giant Guy Carpenter and MI6 contractor Kroll. [...]

August 13, 2014 Documentaries

Elected Member Takes Matter Into Own Hands

Richmondshire district councillor Malcolm Gardner has been disciplined after a standards hearing found him guilty of breaching the council’s information systems acceptable use policy by using his council faptop laptop to view porn. The standards committee ruled that Gardner had [...]

August 7, 2014 Richmondshire District Council

Council Forced to Re-consult on Motorhomes Ban

On the 28th June 2012 Scarborough Borough Council’s (SBC) Cabinet Member for Human Resources, Performance, Transport and ICT, Penny Marsden, considered report 12/332 produced by the council’s Parking Review Group and approved an advertisement informing affected parties that motorhomes would [...]

August 6, 2014 Scarborough Borough Council
The Information Commissioner's Office

ICO Forces Scarborough Council To Admit Futurist Figures Made Up

On the 17th July 2014, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued Decision Notice FS50536742 against Scarborough Borough Council (SBC). The Decision Notice issued relates to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by campaigners attempting to Save the Futurist Theatre from [...]

August 4, 2014 Scarborough Borough Council

Council & Police Demand ID From Under 30s

Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) and North Yorkshire Police (NYP), through their Safer Communities Partnership, have announced the intention to demand ID from revellers to enter certain licensed premises in Scarborough. The six month pilot scheme, which starts today, will make [...]

August 1, 2014 North Yorkshire Police
CC Dave Jones and PCC Julia Mulligan at Newby Wiske Hall

Police HQ Plans Abandoned at Cost of £620,000

Julia Mulligan, North Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, has abandoned plans to build the new headquarters for North Yorkshire Police in the village of South Kilvington, near Thirsk, citing cost as the reason for halting plans. Plans were originally drawn [...]

July 31, 2014 North Yorkshire Police, North Yorkshire Police & Crime Commissioner