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Council Shifts Blame On Whitby Gazette
WHITBY Town councillors tried to shift the blame for their unpopular Sainsbury's decision on to the Whitby Gazette.
They hit out at reporting by the Gazette and the people of Whitby who have inundated our newsroom with letters on the subject.

At the town council meeting last Tuesday, Ian Dixon of Fishburn Park questioned why the council had not wanted a Sainsbu...

 

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Whitby firefighters in appeal for scrap cars

Swindler who conned elderly out of £100k jailed for three years

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WHITBY firefighters are making a fresh appeal for scrap cars which they use for training.
They have asked the people of Whitby to hand over their scrap vehicles rather than take them to a scrapyard or have them towed away.

Mark Naylor, the station manager, said an increasing proportion of their work is involved in rescuing people from...
AN UNSCRUPULOUS financial advisor from Castleton who is thought to have swindled more than £100,000 from vulnerable elderly victims has been jailed for three years.
A court heard how Raymond Melling (55) also failed to pay one victim’s care home fees despite taking thousands of pounds from the man’s bank account for himself.

Melling was operating as an independent financial advisor when the catalogue of fraud...
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Outrage' as BAE Systems probes end after £280m deal

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Accused MP 'naive about expenses'

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John Terry stripped of England captaincy by Capello
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Gloucestershire farmer guilty of murdering missing wife
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Hartlepool 'ghost ship' fire sparks toxic warning
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Eh (high) up: Cook-inspired Yorkshire astronaut bound for Space Station And The Weird Fish Keep Coming Yorkshire Water: Oops, You Did It Again
from The Whitby Independent from The Whitby Independent from The Whitby Independent
When the Space Shuttle launches on Sunday the North Yorkshire coast will have its very own son aboard as Nicholas Patrick becomes the highest-flying Yorkshireman ever.

And like many an explorer before him, Astronaut Patrick was inpired by another famous son of Yorkshire, James Cook. In a neat piece of exploration synchronicity, he will be making his own voyage of discovery on the shuttle Endeavour, named after the Whitby-built Bark on which Cook made his first circumnavigation.

 
Thanks to our correspondent for the latest local exotic fish find: a 3 foot long sunfish found on Skinningrove beach. OK, it’s not Whitby, but we can’t blame this Mola mola for landing up at Skinningrove: these fish are usually found in tropical or temperate waters and, according to a sunfish expert at the University of Berkley prolonged exposure to cold water can lead to sunfish ‘disorientation and death’. Had this sunfish not had its brains addled by an unseasonably cold North Sea, it would undoubtedly have had the good taste to hurl itself to its death on Whitby beach.
This morning the lay-by between Hinderwell and Staithes on the A174 was ankle deep in sewage. Sewage is being forced up through the mud of Staithes Harbour bed: the seepage is clearly visible at low tide. Locals suspect that the holding tank on the Cowbar side of Staithes Harbour has been breached,

And a fractured pipe is leaking raw sewage which is pouring across the Cleveland Way between Port Mulgrave and Runswick, eroding the path and contaminating it with sewage. Yorkshire Water claim that the offending pipe is the responsibility of Scarborough Borough Council who are in turn trying to shuffle responsibility off to North Yorkshire County Council.
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Pupils Plea for Missing Bear Barnaby Damp Misery Makes Tot Ill Cliff Erosion Battle
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"PLEASE bring our Barnaby back!"
Children at Whitby's Airy Hill School are appealing for the return of the school's bear after he went missing at a doctor's surgery.

The bear has been with the school for years and each night is taken home by a child, who does a diary of his exper..
A FED-UP Whitby couple had to rush their eight-month-old son to hospital with bronchitis after suffering months of hell with extensive damp in their home.
Tara Anscombe and John Plumb say the damp in their lounge and kitchen has caused little Brandon-Lee to become ill.

The youngster was admitted to Scarborough Hospital with bronchitis in December.
THE first stage of work to protect the Robin Hood's Bay coastline will begin on Monday.
A team will carry out a ground investigation study at Mount Pleasant as part of the ongoing Robin Hood's Bay Coastal Strategy Study.

The study covers a wide coastal strip from Abbey Cliffs in Whitby down to Hundale Point near Cloughton.
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Industry Boss Ridicules Fish Claim Get A Buzz Building A Bee Hotel Grill The Big Chiefs In The Question Time Hot Seat
from The Whitby Gazette from The Whitby Gazette from The Whitby Gazette
A CLAIM that people in this country have given up eating fish for a variety of reasons – including that it's too smelly – has been ridiculed by an industry chief in Whitby.
The substance, omega-three, is present in fish oils and the claim was made by Nutrasea, in a report following a survey they carried out with 3,000 people.
CHILDREN visiting The Moors National Park Centre in Danby this half-term can get involved in some hands-on activities including planting summer bulbs and making a bee hotel, bird boxes and feeders.
As 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, the events have been organised to teach children about some of the plants and animals that can be found in the national park.
WHITBY Gazette readers are invited to grill the people who make the decisions about the town at a Question Time-style debate.
A special event is being held for residents of Whitby and the surrounding rural area to put forward the questions that matter to them to those in power.
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by Old Holborn updated 05.02.10 by Ranting Penguin updated 05.02.10 by Anna Raccoon updated 05.0.10

BREAKING: Elliot Morley, David Chaytor, Jim Devine and Lord Hanningfield charged over expenses fraud. Uddin investigation ongoing, Lord Clarke insufficient evidence

The four have released a joint statement which reads: "We are clearly extremely disappointed that the DPP has decided to instigate proceedings against us - we thought we'd get away with it. Everyone else has.

"We totally refute any charges that we have committed an offence and we will defend our position robustly. We are confident of our position and have been advised by eminent QCs - our freemason friends in the Judiciary and the Police will see us right, we're sure

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The Prime Mentalist seems to be in complete denial about the financial F***-up his "No more Boom and Bust" management of the economy has produced.

Still, he saved the world, so that's all right, isn't it?

Whilst all eyes are on the CPS, waiting to see how few they can get away with charging over the expenses fraud – without setting off a full scale riot, it is always instructive to trawl round the rest of the Government web sites and see what else they might wish to slip out under cover of the ‘ooh, aah’ factor.
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BLOG: Make It An Election Issue BLOG: Free Whitby! BLOG: World Resources
by What Whitby Wants
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Sometime in 2010 before June there will be a general election, clearly many people do not normaly consider local issues at a general election, instead they think of national issues like the economy and public services for example.

But there is no reason why local issues cannot influence and determine the outcome of the election of our member of parliament, after all, whoever is elected will be our LOCAL MP.		 Whitby Town Council is a Parish Council, which is perhaps adequate for the administration of a village or hamlet with one bus-shelter and a horse-trough. It is not adequate for Whitby, a town and port of 17,000 residents, and often two or three times as many visitors. We need a Council fit for purpose. Whitby Town Council is to all intents and purposes no Council at all. All decisions about Whitby are being made by Scarborough Borough Council. Please try to refrain from focussing on Climate Change. The Climategate scandal has only backed up those who believe global warming is a natural occurance, it happens, temperatures rise, deserts are formed, ice caps melt, sea levels rise and then cool down the earth again..ta da..the earth is a perfectly balanced and powerful creature, do not underestimate the fact it can repair itself efficiently.
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