Spotlight
Following the York Press scoop article “£90,000 expenses addition sparks police commission row” (6th April 2016), Mike PANNETT – an Independent candidate for the forthcoming Police & Crime Commissioner election – has issued the following Press Release: ~~~ “The public [...]
Jeremy & Henry: Was It Murder? Crime & Parliamentary Affairs correspondent TIM HICKS – on the “cold case” trail . . . ~~~~~ Jeremy Thorpe, Henry Upton & Norman Scott Last year as part of the NYE’s ongoing investigation into [...]
WYP: New Year’s FPN Amnesty? an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD following up on his recent letter to the Chief Constable of the West Yorkshire Police with a very fair suggestion. ~~~~~ On 20th December 2015, I published [...]
WYP: Refusal To Refund ‘Illegal’ Fines Challenged an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, raising a late challenge to a very disturbing precedent. ~~~~~ As the ‘Great Yorkshire Parking Scandal’ debate gathers momentum, a Yorkshire Post article published on [...]
For the second time in six weeks members of the far right English Defence League (EDL) and activists from the hard left group Unite Against Fascism (UAF) aka The Socialist Worker’s Party aka ‘Unity’ marched in Scarborough. A very high [...]
Catalogue Of Catastrophic Investigative Failures Crime & Parliamentary Affiars correspondent TIM HICKS provides a lucid overview of the catastrophic failures in Police attempts to get to the bottom of the SAVILE/JACONELLI half-century of predatory paedophilism in Yorkshire. ~~~~~ In my [...]
Scarborough Police: Face The Music an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, examining an almost-forgotten failure of Scarborough Police – who, almost twenty years before he was ultimately convicted, “missed opportunities” to apprehend a ‘Bottom Ender’ who abused and [...]
Operation Yewtree: SAVILE Radio Producer Arrested – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on the inside word regarding the Operation Yewtree arrest, in the North Yorkshire city of York, of a 79-year-old man in connection with historical [...]
Parliamentary Comment On Paedophilism In North Yorkshire Crime & Parliamentary Affairs correspondent TIM HICKS reports on the latest stunning twist in the NYE’s Peter Jaconelli investigation. The Dickens Dossiers In 1984, the Yorkshire MP Geoffrey Dickens claimed there was a [...]
Rough Justice: The Police And The Media Crime & Parliamentary Affairs correspondent TIM HICKS comments on the developing relationship between the Police and the Media. ~~~~~ ‘Rough Justice’ TV Series Between 1982 and 2007, the BBC ran a series called [...]
