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NYC: Snakes & Ladders

NYC: Snakes & Ladders – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on a discernible improvement in communications between Whitby residents and North Yorkshire Council’s Corporate Director of Environment (inc. Harbours), Mr Karl BATTERSBY. Top marks! (Well . [...]

November 15, 2024 North Yorkshire County Council

NYC Maintains its “Right to Silence”

NYC Maintains its “Right to Silence” by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Introduction Over the years, the NYE has relentlessly investigated the abuse of children at Kirklevington Detention Centre (KDC) and Throxenby Hall Residential Care Home, and the abuse of female detainees [...]

October 11, 2024 North Yorkshire County Council, Police

West Pier Conflict Unravelled

West Pier Conflict Unravelled North Yorks Enquirer Harbours correspondent ALLAN ROBERTS attempts to clear up a great deal of misinformation concerning the incompatibility between the already-approved Boat-Hoist project for Scarborough’s West Pier and the Scarborough Town Deal Board’s desire to turn [...]

October 8, 2024 North Yorkshire County Council

Renewables? Birds’ Nest Soup!

Renewables? Birds’ Nest Soup! The Enquirer’s very own Harbours correspondent, ALLAN ROBERTS, brings readers an update on the Renewables-Industry/Boat-Hoist Proposal for West Pier, Scarborough. Well done, Alan. The following reality-check appears to have escaped the attention of the local news media. [...]

October 1, 2024 North Yorkshire County Council

NYC ‘Supersleuth’ CHRIS BOURNE

NYC’s ‘Supersleuth’ CHRIS BOURNE – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD highlighting a thoroughly disreputable example of North Yorkshire Council high-handedness, disrespect and rank stupidity at managerial level. ~~~ Background Beginning around the time of the replica Spanish [...]

September 27, 2024 North Yorkshire County Council

NYP Officers’ Child Abuse Investigation: Pt. 6 – NYC Responds

NYP Officers’ Child Abuse Investigation: Pt. 6 – NYC Responds by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Introduction: The Throxenby Hall Paedophile-Ring Throxenby Hall was a residential care home for boys. It housed about 60 boys aged 9 and over. It was not [...]

September 21, 2024 North Yorkshire County Council

Comrades In Alms

You wouldn’t think the likes of Phil Trumper (Whitby West) of the Conservative Party (Net Zero, Mass Immigration, High Taxes, Large State) and Tony Randerson (Eastfield) of the Social Justice Party (Net Zero, Mass Immigration, High Taxes, Large State) have [...]

September 6, 2024 North Yorkshire County Council

Housing & Parking in Whitby

A Letter to the Editor from Councillor Rob BARNETT, expressing views shared by a majority of Whitby residents, but not – alas! – by the ‘powers that be’. ~~~~~ Dear Editor, Further Thoughts Many thanks for publishing my letter concerning [...]

September 1, 2024 North Yorkshire County Council

High & Dry in Scarborough Harbour

High & Dry in Scarborough Harbour North Yorks Enquirer’s Harbour correspondent ALLAN ROBERTS writes to report the grounding in Scarborough Harbour, at high water, of the replica Spanish galéon “ANDALUCIA” – a humiliation that (as chance would have it) happened [...]

July 18, 2024 North Yorkshire County Council

Dredging the Depths of Fiasco

Dredging the Depths of Fiasco North Yorks Enquirer Harbours correspondent ALLAN ROBERTS, using the Councils’ own data, demonstrates the scarcely-credible scale of incompetence of the Scarborough Harbour Management Team’s mindless squandering of the public purse in pursuit of an extremely [...]

June 27, 2024 North Yorkshire County Council, Scarborough Borough Council