North Yorkshire is calling on local businesses to come forward with offers of help to get food and essential goods to the isolated. While many are already actively helping, we have been called by many businesses wanting to help but [...]
NY Moors Railway COVID-19 Appeal Regular readers of the NYE will be aware of the NYE’s support for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, a wonderful asset for Yorkshire. Owned and operated by a 10,000-member community-based non-profit Charitable Trust, the NYMR [...]
ERYC BID Summonses an Open Letter to Caroline LACEY from NIGEL WARD, exercising (we hope) the voice of reason. ~~~~~ Mrs Caroline LACEY – CEO and Head of Paid Service – East Riding of Yorkshire Council IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST [...]
Solicitor Blasts STANYON Report an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, disclosing and commenting upon a significant item of correspondence. ~~~~~ Readers of my article “Blatantly UNFAIR” (15th March 2020) may find the following document of special interest. Personally, [...]
Blatantly UNFAIR an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, offering a compromise solution to the perhaps inevitable impasse over the entirely predictable conclusions of the STANYON Report. ~~~~~ Following the long-awaited publication of Mr Peter STANYON’s Report on his [...]
We BID You ‘Bravo!’ an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, providing a further update on the ‘stealth tax’ known as the Yorkshire Coast BID. ~~~~~ On Wednesday 26th February 2020, I was able to attend East Riding Magistrates’ [...]
How Red Are These Hands? an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD. ~~~~~ Readers who have followed the ongoing saga of the Yorkshire Coast BID (the 1.5% levy on businesses in the tourism sector whose rateable value exceeds a [...]
Is YCBID in ‘Power Dive’ Mode? an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, updating readers and local businesses on the present prospects of the campaign in opposition to the Yorkshire Coast BID. ~~~~~ East Riding of Yorkshire Council (ERYC) [...]
Bonfire of the Vanities an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD up-dating readers on a number of salient developments in the top story. ~~~~~ Following SBC’s decision to commission a fully independent and impartial investigation into its own role [...]
‘NO INCOME PSPO’ – an Anagram of ‘NINCOMPOOPS’? an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, highlighting another futile PSPO – another useless waste of money, this time by a different local authority nincompoop. ~~~~~ Back in June 2019, my [...]
