As seen in the Scarborough News yesterday, YCR earlier in the week and confirmed on the SBC and NYCC websites, the councils are refusing to refund PCNs after Scarborough’s Disc Zone was ruled “unenforceable” and “an inelegant mess” by the [...]
“The Puzzle Palace” After several years of the Scarborough News and/or Whitby Gazette ignoring, demeaning or ouright trashing North Yorks Enquirer coverage of current affairs in local politics and policing, we have now reached the point where Ed ASQUITH, editor [...]
A Letter to the Editor from Chartered Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner and citizen investigative-journalist TIM HICKS, offering a professional view on the MARRIOTT case. ~~~~~ Dear Sir, I am writing to you on a number of topics, but primarily to [...]
UKIP’s Scarborough & Whitby Borough Councillors have made the following statement regarding the Traffic Penalty Tribunal’s judgement that Scarborough & Whitby’s Disc Zone are legally unenforceable. UKIP Scarborough and Whitby are very disappointed to learn that despite our enquiries just [...]
SBC: MARRIOTT “Whitewash” Costs Council £¼M Today’s Scarborough News reports the outcome of the final hearing (in Hull – not Bradford, as the SN states) in the Ben MARRIOTT constructive dismissal claim. Mr MARRIOTT is reported as estimating that by [...]
Less than a week to go until Scarborough Borough Council’s latest consultation closes. The consultation concerns a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) in the wider Scarborough town centre area. A PSPO is an order which allows local authorities to ban [...]
Today’s Letter to the Editor comes from occasional Enquirer contributor, BOB ROBERTS – inspired by a letter by Bob HIRD which recently appeared in the Scarborough News (reproduced at the foot of this page) – appears here in full, unredacted [...]
Council Tax Dodging Councillors – UPDATE Readers may recall a series of NYE articles, based on responses to my Freedom of Information requests – dealing with Councillors serving at a ’round dozen’ billing authorities in our general area, whose recalcitrance [...]
A Letter to the Editor from Sam CROSS, the Leader of the UKIP Group at both Scarborough Borough Council and North Yorkshire County Council, who writes to offer readers a point of view on the BEN MARRIOTT affair. It is [...]
SBC: Leader & CEO Excoriated In Futurist Letter The Scarborough News has published the following letter from Scarborough resident Bob HIRD, heavily criticising the Council Leader, Councillor Derek BASTIMAN [Con.] and the Chief Executive Officer, Mr Jim DILLON, in respect [...]
