Spotlight
NBR: Lost – But Not Leased? A Letter to the Editor from Scarborough businessman, PETER LEE, enquiring into the murky matter of whether or not the Council’s paperwork has been in order for the past 15 years – or, in [...]
Bid Farewell to the BID, Mike An Open Letter to Mike GREENE, Head of Paid Service & CEO of Scarborough Borough Council, providing information and opinion intended to be of assistance to the Council in the execution of its statutory [...]
SBC/STDB: Negligence, Incompetence and Lies? – Pt.1 An Open Letter to Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) and the Scarborough Town Deal Board (STDB), signed by well over 100 members of the South Bay community (comprising residents, Harbour users (commercial and leisure), [...]
How ‘Urgent’ – that Leader’s Urgent Decision? North Yorks Enquirer’s harbours correspondent ALLAN ROBERTS examines the rationale behind yet another autocratic short-cut of democratic checks and balances. ~~~~~ I am puzzled to note that, on 25th May 2022 and under the [...]
Longstanding NYE contributor and National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Journalist Tim Hicks has submitted evidence to the Ministry of Justice investigation into Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs). His evidence concerns the use of SLAPPs by Scarborough Council (SBC) and [...]
In 2017, Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) and North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) went to the Traffic Penalty Tribunal to overturn a decision which branded the Scarborough Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) an “inelegant mess” and consequently “unenforceable”. The councils managed to [...]
In a satirical spirit, the North Yorks Enquirer presents the two-hundred-and-forty-sixth in a continuing series of so-called “Photoons” – cartoons developed from digital photographs – highlighting the more amusing aspects of current affairs in North Yorkshire and far beyond. Readers [...]
SBC Deploys Security ‘Heavies’ Against NYE by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ For many years, NYE community journalist Nigel Ward has been peacefully attending Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) meetings to report to the NYE’s readership on Council affairs in Scarborough. This is [...]
“YCBID: Dead (and about to lie down?)” An Open Letter from the Yorkshire Coast Levy Payers’ Association (accompanied by a range of explanatory documents) to members revealing potentially ‘fatal’ flaws in the Levy collection process amounting to alleged misrepresentations, rendering [...]
Scarborough NYCC Election Results 2022 RESULTS will be published here, updating on a running basis from 11:30am. If your Division has not yet been called, please re-visit the site in due course. Divisions (and Candidates) appear in alphabetical order. Those [...]
