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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 [...]
Whitby ‘NO CONFIDENCE’ Vote – Details Readers have been requesting voting details on last night’s Resolution to the effect that Whitby Town Council has NO CONFIDENCE in Scarborough Borough Council Leader Councillor Derek BASTIMAN [Con.] and his seven colleagues who [...]
WTC Cllr. & Former Mayor Bring NO CONFIDENCE VOTE re SBC Cabinet Following the unanticipated level of support for a Scarborough resident’s on-line Petition calling for a VOTE of NO CONFIDENCE in SBC Leader Derek BASTIMAN and his seven colleagues [...]
Filey Town Council By-Election Result Turn-out = 13.2% [...]
Uneasy LIES The Head That Wears Two Hats an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, exposing a very sly communication to Filey Town Council from SBC closet-Tory Councillor Mike COCKERILL. ~~~~~ On 15th July 2016, I reported on SBC [...]
Cllr Mike COCKERILL: ‘Shock’ Resignation Scarborough Borough Council Cabinet Member Councillor Mike COCKERILL [Ind.] – Portfolio Holder for Harbours, Assets, Coast and Flood Protection (and formerly a North Yorkshire County Councillor) – is reported to have resigned his seat on [...]
Pocklington Town Council Sharpens Up an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, updating readers on a small step of progress at one of the hitherto most incompetent Councils in Yorkshire. ~~~~~ In a recent article, I reported on the [...]
