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 [...]
Operation Countryman II (8) Jimmy Savile, Organised Crime, Fraud and Police protection: Crime and Parliamentary Affairs correspondent TIM HICKS examines the connection between organised crime, abuse of children and young people, fraud, official protection and Police protection. ~~~~~ People are [...]
SBC Legal: Another Messy Foul-Up an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, questioning (once more) the massive professional incompetence of the Scarborough Borough Council Legal & Democratic Services Department (SBC Legal), who seemingly cannot even produce the text of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SBC versus ‘Elizabeth’ the Steam Bus: A Lot Of Hot Air an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, questioning just what it is that SBC is getting all steamed up about . . . ~~~~~ IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST [...]
The North Yorks Enquirer has had an anonymous tip off that all five senior officers at Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) have received a large pay rise around the start of the year. The pay rise is reputed to be worth [...]
Confessions & Promises an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD. It Has Been Alleged . . . It has been alleged, by the Legal & Democratic Services department of Scarborough Borough Council; that I have published defamatory articles. [28/03/2013] [...]
Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) has announced it will be breathalysing town centre revellers between Saturday 26th July and the 9th of August as part of a pilot scheme, ahead of a widescale ‘pre-loading’ campaign planned for late autumn. The project [...]
