Once upon a time there was a proud Essex girl called Alison Hume. Alison dreamed of becoming a writer and studied hard at The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College. Alison’s dreams came true. But Alison found the [...]
The Scarborough & Whitby Labour Party launched their Parliamentary campaign on the Thursday 19th July with a senior member of Labour introducing their prospective parliamentary candidate, Hugo Fearnley. Fearnley replaces 2017 candidate Eric Broadband after the local party decided to [...]
In a letter bristling with brazen hypocrisy, Labour’s North Yorkshire Leader, Councillor Eric Broadbent, has called out the North Yorkshire Tories for increasing their councillor allowance by 2.5% per annum. I can hear many of you saying you agree with [...]
On Monday 12th May 2014 Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) voted to remove the titles of Alderman and Mayor from Conservative Peter Jaconelli. The removal was due to a large number of allegations of child sex abuse, some of them in [...]
In 2011 Jeremy Corbyn signed an Early Day Motion mourning the death of Jimmy Savile. That this House mourns the death of Sir Jimmy Savile OBE who has died two days before his 85th birthday; recognises his enormous contribution to [...]
“Coalition, Anyone? . . . Anyone?” – Codhead 070 Ever the optimist, Codhead looks to the future with mild trepidation, bordering on utter despair – and not only at national level. And apparently CodHead is anticipating coarse horse-trading at local [...]
ELECTION SPECIAL: Opposition Parliamentary Candidates for Scarborough & Whitby The five pretenders to Robert GOODWILL’s seat at Westminster have all submitted to the North Yorks Enquirer Letters to the Editor, introducing themselves and their respective policies to the electorate in [...]
Tory-Led Scarborough Council Bans LABOUR Banner – But NOT Tory an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on a despicable electioneering dirty trick. ~~~~~ The clock on Whitby’s old Town Hall shows three minutes to three this afternoon, [...]
UK Parliamentary & Local Elections 2015 Perhaps because of the juxtaposition in time of the UK Parliamentary General Election and the Local Council District/Borough/Parish Elections on 7th May 2015 – an infrequent occurrence in recent times – there has been [...]
The Scarborough & Whitby Labour Party are currently holding hustings to select their Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for the May 2015 General Election. Top of the list appears to be local Labour Party leader, Colin Challen. Challen was formerly Labour [...]
