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All posts by Tim Thorne

The £30million Blank Cheque

On the 14th May 2018 elected members of Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) voted to hand a whopping £30million to Senior Officers at the Council to spend as part of the Commercial Property Investment Strategy. The Commercial Property Investment Strategy proposal [...]

July 25, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council

Scarborough Council To Be Abolished

Scarborough Borough Council is to be abolished in a nationwide local government reorganisation. The news comes as no surprise to viewers of independent news sites such as UK Column who’ve been reporting of major changes and a repurposing of UK [...]

July 10, 2020 City of York Council, Craven District Council, Hambleton District Council, Harrogate Borough Council, North Yorkshire County Council, Richmondshire District Council, Ryedale District Council, Scarborough Borough Council, Selby District Council

The Travelodge £3.8 Million Loss

A Company Voluntary Arrangement document filed at Companies House by Travelodge Hotels Limited show that Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) are claiming a loss of £3,876,922 after the chain fell into financial problems. The large debt is thought to consist of [...]

July 7, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council

SBC ‘Deputy Leader’ Goes On Strike

Mardy Labour Councillor, Liz Colling, who claims to be deputy leader of Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) when no such position exists, has clearly had enough of workshy SBC leader Steve Siddons. Blairite Colling, who is desperate to lead the council, [...]

June 9, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council

Siddons Torpedoes Argos Flagship?

The economic fallout from the unnecessary Coronavirus lockdown has resulted in Councillors at Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) requesting another vote on Labour leader Siddons’ flagship Argos project. The Argos project spends £22million of taxpayer’s money on a building to replace [...]

June 3, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council

The Borough’s Laziest Councillors – May 2020

Just before the May 2nd 2019 Local Elections for Scarborough Borough Council an article was published which listed the attendance records of councillors seeking re-election. This year we take a closer look at the attendance records of those councillors who [...]

May 25, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council

The Great Lockdown Hoax

The UK lockdown began on 23rd March 2020. The stated purpose of the lockdown was to stop NHS hospitals being overwhelmed by the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. When it became apparent that NHS hospitals were not going to be [...]

May 14, 2020 Misc

Scarborough Police Break The Law

On the 16th April 2020 at 8PM uniformed Police officers from around Scarborough gathered at the main entrance of Scarborough Hospital and flagrantly broke the law. The gathering was not essential for work purposes. The law in question is The [...]

April 18, 2020 North Yorkshire Police

North Yorkshire Police Essential Journeys #1

The Politically Correct Deputy Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police (NYP), Phil Cain, took an ‘essential journey’ across to Scarborough on Wednesday to congratulate Winn, who has served NYP for 50 years. Congratulations on 50 years service, Winn. Quite some [...]

April 9, 2020 North Yorkshire Police, North Yorkshire Police & Crime Commissioner, Police

Ashamed Lib Dem Cllr Desperate To Deliver

Northstead Ward councillor, John Atkinson, who was so ashamed to be a Liberal Democrat that he stood as an Independent in the 2019 Scarborough Borough Council elections, asked SBC’s senior legal officer for epidemiological advice whether it would be OK [...]

March 25, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council