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Whitby floods

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It hasn’t made much news but Whitby has recently experienced rather a bit of flooding leaving quite a few people with homes far less habitable than they previously have been. Given Scarborough councils rather litigious nature I won’t say that the reduction in dredging of Whitby harbour and general neglect of Whitby’s infrastructure had anything to do with the seriousness of the situation. Nor will I suggest that Scarborough council has a resonably long, obvious and well documented antipathy towards Whitby. However I will say that in the numerous years I’ve been visiting Whitby for the Goth weekend the residents … Continue reading →

The security Jobsworths

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For those of you that are regular readers you may remember the other day when I went for little walk, that the police took interest in my interest in the various security features around Westminster. Well it seems the problem is far from uncommon and it’s not just the police that are against us filming well pretty much anything, as Rod Liddle recently found. As the film so rightly observes they object to us filming but want to film us all the time, and when challenged none of them can give a reason why the filming or looking at stuff … Continue reading →

Last week else where

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I may yet get the hang of this, now just to actually do this at the start of the week and I might begin to look like a proper blogger. Mark reckons he’s leaving the LibDems and with good reason The EU says it’s fine for Spain to bully Gibraltar The spooks will be suffering from lack of co-operation from security professionals for years to come Both the Tories and Labour decided to hide a load of speeches Apparently clicking “like” doesn’t actually help charities who’d have thunk it Anonymous Vs. Anonymous not quite Spy Vs Spy still rather funny … Continue reading →