Spotlight
The past year has been the strangest I’ve ever experienced. Listening to the UK Government and their media you’d think there was a deadly virus stalking the land, killing off the young and old alike, removing the healthy and vulnerable [...]
Council ‘Protocols’ NYE harbours correspondent ALLAN ROBERTS identifies another glaring example of SBC double standards. ~~~~~ If I may refer to the recent NYE article, and in particular to this snippet taken from that article: With reference by the requestor [...]
Open Letter to the SBC CEO by NIGEL WARD ~~~~~ Foreword On Monday 15th March 2021, I provided SBC’s Chair of Audit Councillor Andrew BACKHOUSE [Ind.] with a courtesy copy of the following Open Letter to CEO Mike GREENE. Late [...]
Raising Standards an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, offering the opinion that although the forthcoming changes to Councils’ Standards Procedures may amount to greater ‘protection’ for errant Councillors and a further hindrance to freedom of expression, nevertheless, Councillors [...]
Cake & Eat It! an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, highlighting potentially serial abuse of the Scarborough Borough Council Standards Procedures. ~~~~~ Background Regular readers will perhaps recall an article under my by-line published in the North Yorks [...]
An Open Letter to Scarborough Borough Council’s Portfolio Holder for Corporate Resources (including Harbours), Councillor Janet Jefferson [Ind.], from shell-fisherman BOB ROBERTS. ~~~~~ Dear Councillor Jefferson, As you are already aware, come spring of 2022, the whole nature of from [...]
Having watched the last Full Council Meeting on Scarborough Borough Council’s YouTube Channel, I noticed one of the councillors was complaining about mysterious “anti-vax” stickers appearing around the town. The stickers are from a Telegram group called The White Rose. [...]
SBC: Round-Up an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, summarising the state of the Borough Council in the run-up to its year-end. ~~~~~ With no further meetings of SBC Full Council scheduled until 11th May 2021, here follows a [...]
The Emperor’s Toast Today’s ever-popular Guest Author is Alderman NORMAN MURPHY, who appears to have identified the cause of some belated signs of long-overdue action in the Puzzle Palace… ~~~~~ To suggest that the reign of Labour Emperor “Stevo Siddonso” [...]
Questions are being asked of Scarborough Borough Council’s S151 Officer and Director of Finance, Nick Edwards. The questions concern the amount of money in the Benchmark Balance Sum Account. The Balance Sum Account was created as part of the Development [...]
