Spotlight
SBC: T.I.C. Tactics an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on an incipient crack in the Tory SBC stranglehold. ~~~~~ Readers of the Whitby Gazette and the Scarborough News may have struggled recently to discern any useful information [...]
Guest Author Allan ROBERTS of Scarborough (whose powers of scrutiny have identified a very poor performance indeed on the part of Scarborough Borough Council Leader, Councillor Derek BASTIMAN [Con.] [Scalby ward]) informs readers about the quality of representation local fishermen [...]
SBC: Nock, Nock . . . Who’s Still There? an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on the ‘verdict’ in the case of the Scarborough Borough Council hebephile-apologist, Conservative Councillor John NOCK. ~~~~~ Readers may remember an article [...]
Today’s Guest Author slot goes to the Whitby Beacon Town Forum, bringing news of another example of ‘done deal’ local governance, hard on the heels of the proposed closure by North Yorkshire County Council – first by stealth, then by [...]
“CORRUPTOPHENIA” – The Sequel an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, updating readers with the sequel to a curiously prophetic (and purely hypothetical) story of corruption in a local authority in the UK. There will be more in the [...]
Guest Author ANDY STRANGEWAY up-dates readers with official DfT confirmation that his analysis of the regulations in relation to the “No Overnight Motorhome Parking Ban” is correct. See also: “95% Of Motor Caravans Unticketable” (24th January 2016) and “Govt. Anti-Motorhome [...]
Tory-dominated Scarborough Borough Council’s preferred bidder for the Foreshore Road Futurist Theatre site, Flamingo Land Limited and its director Gordon Gibb, have again made sizable donations to the Tory party. The donations, which were recorded on the Electoral Commission web [...]
Guest Author ANDY STRANGEWAY follows up on yesterday’s article with sensational new revelations. ~~~~~ Govt Anti-Motorhome Policy Exposed Yesterday, I revealed that 95% of Motor Caravans cannot be ticketed. This was in fact not correct, but has now been corrected. [...]
The final nail in the coffin of Scarborough’s Futurist Theatre appears to have been hammered in by Scarborough & Whitby’s Labour party. The leader of the Scarborough & Whitby Labour party, Cllr Steve Siddons, has confirmed that his party will [...]
Guest Author Andy STRANGEWAY highlights a glaring and fatal error in the NYCC/SBC ‘No Motor Caravan’ on-street parking regulations. ~~~~~ 95% Of Motor Caravans Unticketable Despite the fact that I have given Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) numerous opportunities, they have not [...]
