Guest Author East Riding of Yorkshire Independent Councillor ANDY STRANGEWAY reports on the Cooperman complaints saga and illustrates how Councils’ Code of Conduct Complaints Procedures, as established under the Localism Act 2011, are NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE. This has implications [...]
Guest Author MIKE WARD , former SBC Councillor [Ind.], offer his (unabridged) comments on the imprudence of Whitby Town Council. ~~~~~ Whitby Town Council Caught Short Has Whitby once again been taken to the cleaners by SBC? They have persuaded [...]
SBC: Cabinet Attempts Secret FTC Meeting an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on the efforts of SBC Portfolio Holder Councillor Mike COCKERILL [Ind.] to engineer an unlawful secret meeting of Filey Town Council with the SBC Cabinet [...]
A Letter to the Editor (in fact, two for the price of one) from Tony GREEN, former SBC Officer, voicing the concerns of his community – Filey, Hunmanby and surrounding villages – as expressed in a letter from an unnamed [...]
WTC: Mayor Explodes an “In My View” by NIGEL WARD, reporting on another abusive outburst from Whitby Town Mayor ~~~~~ On the evening of Tuesday 7th March 2017, Whitby Town Council (WTC) convened the most recent of its regular monthly [...]
A Letter to the Editor from Tony GREEN, former SBC Officer and long-time campaigner for the beautiful town of Filey, scene of Monday night’s historic 12:1 vote of NO CONFIDENCE in the CEO, Leader and Cabinet of Scarborough Borough Council, [...]
After ‘WHEXIT’ – ‘FLEXIT’ – Filey Town Council Flexes Its Muscles! On Monday 13th February 2017, Filey Town Council flexed its muscles and resoundingly trumped the NO CONFIDENCE motion carried at Whitby Town Council last Tuesday 7th February 2017, both [...]
WHEXIT! WTC Cllrs Condemn SBC Leadership Three years to the day since the BBC ‘Inside Out’ Documentary vindicated the citizen-journalists of Real Whitby (now heading-up the North Yorks Enquirer), the Whitby Gazette has front-paged the Whitby Town Council move to [...]
Filey Next For NO CONFIDENCE Vote Filey Town Council has published the Agenda for its Special Meeting on Monday 13th February 2017. Item 7 on the Agenda will be of special interest to the growing number of people who have [...]
SN Covers BASTIMAN Drubbing Having travelled to Whitby to attend the Whitby Town Council meeting of Tuesday 7th February 2017, Scarborough resident Ron WILKEY succeeded, by a combination of reasoned argument and passionate persuasion, in swaying enough Whitby Councillors to [...]
