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WHITBY PIERS: 17 Questions For The Leader

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 [...]

April 5, 2017 Scarborough Borough Council

WHEXIT! WTC Cllrs Condemn SBC Leadership

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 [...]

February 10, 2017 Filey Town, Scarborough Borough Council, Whitby Town

Whitby ‘NO CONFIDENCE’ Vote – Details

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 [...]

February 8, 2017 Scarborough Borough Council, Whitby Town

WTC: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to D-I-Y Hole-Digging

WTC: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to D-I-Y Hole-Digging an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on the latest trickery from Whitby Town (Parish) Council. Pantomime season starts here. ~~~~~ I recently published an article entitled “WTC: Yet Another [...]

December 26, 2014 Whitby Town

WTC: Yet Another Data Security Breach

WTC: Yet Another Data Security Breach an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on yet another astonishing breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 at Whitby Town (Parish) Council, accompanied by the now customary incompetence of an already [...]

December 16, 2014 Whitby Town

WTC: Backstabbers VI – Black Kettle Impugns White Pot

WTC: Backstabbers VI – Black Kettle Impugns White Pot – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on the escalating meltdown (and coming flare-up) at Whitby Town (Parish) Council. ~~~~~ For those who have not followed this extraordinary [...]

December 1, 2014 Whitby Town

WTC: Backstabbers V – Turkeys, Ostriches – and Lemmings

WTC: Backstabbers V – Turkeys, Ostriches – and Lemmings an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on the first challenge to the extraordinary and secretive conduct of the Human Resources Committee and the Finance, Policy & General Purposes [...]

November 5, 2014 Whitby Town

WTC: Backstabbers IV – The Turkeys Who Voted For Christmas

WTC: Backstabbers IV – The Turkeys Who Voted For Christmas an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, taking you behind closed doors at probably the worst value-for-money Council in England & Wales. ~~~~~ Please do not imagine that this [...]

November 2, 2014 Whitby Town

WTC: The Mayor’s Nest

WTC: The Mayor’s Nest an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, catching up on the tsunami in a thimble at Whitby Town (Parish) Council. ~~~~~ There are two unrelated meanings of the term “mare’s nest” in circulation, and there [...]

October 20, 2014 Whitby Town

WTC Ruckus: An Up-Date

WTC Ruckus: An Up-Date – an “In My View” up-date by NIGEL WARD, informing readers of the latest developments regarding events covered in his article “WTC: A Council Divided”, published yesterday (Sunday 31st August 2014). ~~~~~ Background Readers of yesterday’s [...]

September 1, 2014 Whitby Town