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CWTRA Meeting – Outcome & Votes

CWTRA Meeting – Outcome & Votes – an “In My View ” article by NIGEL WARD. ~~~~~ Last night’s meeting of the Castle Ward Tenants’ & Residents’ Association (CWTRA), according to reports from those present, was an acrimonious affair, characterised [...]

November 24, 2021 Scarborough Borough Council

ARGOS: The Myth Makers

ARGOS: The Myth Makers Guest Author Stormin’ NORMAN MURPHY responds to SBC ‘Deputy’ Leader Councillor Liz Colling’s desperate attempts to prop up the fanciful Argos myths now being peddled, at who-knows-who’s expense, all over social media and the wider internet. Does [...]

November 14, 2021 Scarborough Borough Council

ARGOS Consultation with Scarborough Harbour Users Group

ARGOS Consultation with Scarborough Harbour Users Group Harbours correspondent ALLAN ROBERTS reports on a curious disparity in the various ARGOS consultation processes. Is someone attempting to tilt the playing-field again? ~~~~~ I draw your attention to the two statements at [...]

October 30, 2021 Scarborough Borough Council

The Leader’s Same Old Refrain

The Leader’s Same Old Refrain – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, offering a contrary opinion to that expressed by SBC Leader Councillor Steve SIDDONS [Lab.] in the local media – the bully playing the victim once again. [...]

October 28, 2021 Scarborough Borough Council

The Tuesday Argos Public Meeting

Scarborough Borough Council’s long term plan to flush £14 million of Borough taxpayer’s down the toilet and spend £22 million on a block of flats for students and nurses, which will only be worth £7 million when it opens, will [...]

October 17, 2021 Scarborough Borough Council

ARGOS: Public Meeting Called

ARGOS: Public Meeting Called – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, covering the very latest developments in the ARGOS saga. ~~~~~ Hard on the heels of yesterday’s article “CORRIGAN Appeals re ARGOS Madness” (covering the ‘regeneration’ of the [...]

October 16, 2021 Scarborough Borough Council

ARGOS Planning Shambles

ARGOS Planning Shambles – an “In My View”article by NIGEL WARD, providing commentary and opinion on the farcical mismanagement of the Planning Application in respect of the so-called ‘regeneration’ of the former ARGOS building on Newborough, Scarborough. ~~~~~ Local readers [...]

October 3, 2021 Scarborough Borough Council

That ARGOS ‘Call-in’

That ARGOS ‘Call-in’ A Guest Author article by Alderman NORMAN MURPHY, providing his inimitable insight into Scarborough Borough Council’s mis-handling of the ‘call-in’ motion to review the business case for the Leader’s flagship ARGOS ‘regeneration’ project. ~~~~~ As might have been [...]

September 15, 2021 Scarborough Borough Council

“All The King’s Horses”

In a satirical spirit, the North Yorks Enquirer presents the two-hundred-and-thirty-first in a continuing series of so-called “Photoons” – cartoons developed from digital photographs – highlighting the more amusing aspects of current affairs in North Yorkshire and far beyond. Readers [...]

September 7, 2021 Photoons

STOP PRESS! Who’s Been Telling Porkies?

STOP PRESS! Who’s Been Telling Porkies? – an “In My View”article by NIGEL WARD, updating readers on an extraordinary turn of events ahead of the SBC meeting of Full Council at 2:00pm on Monday 6th September 2021. ~~~~~ IN THE [...]

September 5, 2021 Scarborough Borough Council