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The Futurist Top Twenty

The Futurist Top Twenty an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reminding voters of a four-yearly opportunity to hold elected Conservative Councillors to account. ~~~~~ As predicted, not all 22 of the Scarborough Borough Councillors who voted in favour [...]

April 8, 2019 Scarborough Borough Council

The Borough’s Laziest Councillors

With the May 2nd Local Elections for Scarborough Borough Council just around the corner, now seems like a good time to review Councillor meeting attendance figures for the current four year term (2015-2019). The Councillors are listed in order of [...]

April 7, 2019 Scarborough Borough Council

SBC May 2019 Local Election Candidates

Runners and riders for the 2019 Scarborough Borough Council Elections, including yours truly. I wonder how much the Parliamentary turmoil will affect voting patterns? Burniston & Cloughton Andrew Backhouse – Conservative Party Moira Cunningham – Labour Party Beverley Kristensen – [...]

April 4, 2019 Scarborough Borough Council

A Paper Chase in Filey

A Paper Chase in Filey an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on further evidence of a Tory meltdown in the southern part of the Borough – this time in the Filey ward. ~~~~~ A couple of weeks [...]

April 4, 2019 Scarborough Borough Council

Tory: “Peter Sutcliffe was a fantastic lorry driver”

Conservative candidate, Tom Seston, who is up for election to Scarborough Borough Council in Hunmanby Ward, seems to think that a serial killer who murdered 13 women mostly across Yorkshire is an exemplary lorry driver. Current SBC Councillor for Hertford [...]

April 3, 2019 Scarborough Borough Council

EXCLUSIVE! Futurist Theatre to be Rebuilt

EXCLUSIVE! Futurist Theatre to be Rebuilt Scarborough Borough Council, in an unprecedented U-turn, has announced that, having secured eleventh-hour unsecured funding from the European Union Cultural Regeneration Initiative (EUCRI), a £9M 21st Century state-of-the-art, brand-new, singing-‘n’-dancing, humming-‘n’-toe-tapping Futurist Theatre is [...]

April 1, 2019 Scarborough Borough Council

Alpamare License Application

Tomorrow, Monday April 1st is the final day you can comment on the new Alpamare alcohol license application. You can make your representations using the forms at the top of the page. The Alpamare waterpark opened in July 2016. After [...]

March 31, 2019 Scarborough Borough Council

Stormin’ Norman Debunks ‘Dodgy’ DBID

Popular Guest Author Councillor Norman MURPHY [Ind.] gives us the low-down on the Council *hit factory – pardon the typo, the Council’s hit factory – well-known for its obsession with tourism (which is why it closed its three Tourist Information [...]

March 27, 2019 Scarborough Borough Council

That ‘Misleading’ Futurist Report

Further to Councillor Norman MURPHY’s article of Monday 18th March 2019 . . . An Open Letter to Jim DILLON by NIGEL WARD. ~~~~~ Mr James McGarvie DILLON – CEO and Head of  Paid Service – Scarborough Borough Council IN [...]

March 24, 2019 Scarborough Borough Council

“Little & Nothing””

A gloriously acerbic Letter to the Editor from SBC Councillor Michelle DONOHUE-MONCRIEFF [Ind.Ind.] (Hertford), letting some gas out of the desperate Tory pairing in the Hertford (Hunmanby) Ward – Councillor Godfrey ALLANSON and ex-Kipper, ‘Tweeting’ Tom SESTON – who, respectively, [...]

March 20, 2019 Letters, Scarborough Borough Council