Spotlight
As regular readers will know, Registers of Interests are always intriguing reading, but the full facts are obscured as relevant information is often altered or omitted. Given the willingness of Local Authorities to support York Potash’s dig on the North [...]
Jaconelli and Fox – the Credibility Gap – Corruption Buster Tim Hicks explores the information overlap between former Scarborough Councillor, Mayor and prolific paedophile PETER JACONELLI (Alderman of the Borough of Scarborough), and Scarborough Borough Council itself (presently under the [...]
Despite repeated calls to reform the system nearly £32,000 per annum is being overpaid to Councillors across North Yorkshire in the form of an IT / Broadband Allowance. Over the last four years around £125,000 has been overpaid to Councillors [...]
Regular readers will remember the failed attempts by Scarborough Borough Council to move the Town Hall out to Dunslow Road at Eastfield in 2012. Planning for the move commenced in 2010 when the Skipton Building Society announced that Prospect House, [...]
Jimmy Savile: The FOUR Rings? – Tim HICKS up-dates some major developments in the Savile investigation in Scarborough and Whitby. ~~~~~ Further to my recent “Corruption Busters” article on Jimmy Savile, we have received more information from Whitby and Scarborough residents, [...]
“A Christmas Carol(e)” – with Lisa & Jeremy – an ‘In My View’ article – by Nigel Ward ~ IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST “Weeks turn into years; how quick they pass. And all the stars that never were are parking [...]
Times they are a-changing. Gone are the days when the final word on a subject in local politics was given by a local Authority press release or through their stooges in the local paper. The only dissenting voices were to [...]
A Letter to the Editor from Whitby Town (Parish) Councillor Ian HAVELOCK, responding to the rank-breaking letter to the Scarborough News from Borough Councillor Stormin’ Norman MURPHY (Independent: Scarborough Northstead Ward), further endorsed by Councillor Roxanne MURPHY (Independent: Seamer) and [...]
A Letter to the Editor from SBC Councillor Norman MURPHY (first published in the Scarborough News and reproduced here with the writer’s kind permission). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Mr Editor, The announcement that an axe has now been taken to reduce the [...]
Double-Dipping double-talk – a ‘frank and honest’ statement? IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST The anatomy of a COVER-UP. Institutionalised ‘Get-Out-of-Jail-Free’ cards? Over five weeks ago, on Friday 26th October 2012, the Whitby Gazette published an article entitled “Councillors cleared of ‘double-dipping’”. [...]
