At Long Last! SBC NO CONFIDENCE Motion Tabled an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, announcing the long-awaited Motion of NO CONFIDENCE in SBC Leader Councillor Derek BASTIMAN [Con.] and his seven Cabinet Portfolio Holders. ~~~~~ This morning, Wednesday [...]
WHITBY PIERS: 17 Questions For The Leader An Open Letter from the Fight 4 Whitby Group, raising seventeen questions for SBC Leader Councillor Derek BASTIMAN [Con.] regarding the deplorable negligence of the Whitby Piers. Any coherent answers will be published [...]
My dispute with Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) and North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) with regard to Scarborough’s Residents’ Priority Parking Zone has resulted in a decision which has clarified the situation. PCNs issued AFTER 18th March 2013 are probably enforceable. [...]
OPEN LETTER to Councillor Mike COCKERILL, SBC an Open Letter from NIGEL WARD to the SBC Portfolio Holder for Project Leadership, Harbours and Coast & Flood Protection, Councillor MIKE COCKERILL [Ind.]. ~~~~~ Mike, I write with a view to obtaining [...]
Adult Social Care Council Tax Billing Clarified an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, interpreting the confusion underlying the misrepresentation of the Adult Social Care precept. ~~~~~ NYCC/SBC Following Tim THORNE’s widely-read article covering an apparent ‘error’ in this [...]
A quick look at the Council Tax bills recently delivered through your door, which were prepared by the Finance Department at Scarborough Borough Council, show a very misleading figure relating to Adult Social Care. In 2016/17, the Adult Social Care [...]
Tory NOCK Knocks Opposition an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on a blatant electioneering letter in this week’s Whitby Gazette. ~~~~~ With the North Yorkshire County Council elections seven weeks away, the Scarborough & Whitby Conservative Association, [...]
On the back of mounting a laughable and ultimately futile anti-Trump protest in Scarborough town centre, the Scarborough & Whitby Labour Party are now taking part in a march on Parliament. What’s the cause? The Scarborough & Whitby Labour Party [...]
SBC: The Great Asbestos Scare – Mystery Deepens an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on the mystery surrounding reports of life-endangering asbestos fibres contaminating The Futurist Theatre. ~~~~~ When Yorkshire Coast Radio published, on 3rd March 2017, [...]
Futurist: Asbestos Rumours Denied Following recent rumours, widely circulated on social media, to the effect that Scarborough Borough Council had engaged a specialist asbestos removal contractor to begin assessment and removal of hazardous matrrials from The Futurist Theatre, and that [...]
