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		<title>Me Too! rolls on.</title>
		<link>http://thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/me-too-rolls-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free Whitby campaigner Nigel Ward has asked SBC for: &#8220;a complete accounting of all vouchers/invoices for all SBC venues involved in the [Me Too!] scheme&#8221; We know that Whitby Leisure Centre has had a suckle at this public teat to a rumoured value of £30k. SBC has promised the information &#8216;in a few days&#8217; and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7600079&amp;post=2067&amp;subd=thewhitbyindependent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Email to TWI: SBC levies higher council tax than posh London.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[indefatigable Whitby campaigner (and Banjo king) Richard Ineson asks some awkward questions of our Council overlords. As the 2011-12 bills land, right-thinking residents might think he has a point: Dear Sir, Here are a few figures which local Council Tax payers&#8217; may find illuminating, I have a particular interest in this very unfair tax as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7600079&amp;post=2065&amp;subd=thewhitbyindependent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So to all those SBC officials who said there was no dredging by Sandgate:</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s this? Scotch mist? Sandsend dredging by Sandgate in March 2009. Before Sandgate collapsed.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7600079&amp;post=2058&amp;subd=thewhitbyindependent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NYCC tweets:</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had suggestions on what more you&#8217;d like to see from our twitter, including, events, photos and facts about the area. Any more ideas? The following: &#8216;With three layers of local government even before MPs, MEPs and quangos are counted, the people of Yorkshire are overtaxed and over governed. The distant and expensive NYCC has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7600079&amp;post=2054&amp;subd=thewhitbyindependent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parish council election washout.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 5th&#8217;s parish council elections are hardly worth dignifying with the name since few wards throughout the area could muster enough candidates to have an opposed election. According to the Scarborough Borough Council news site: At the moment, of the 39 parish councils in the borough, only seats in Eastfield (both the Eastway and Westway [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7600079&amp;post=2051&amp;subd=thewhitbyindependent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whitby Goth Weekend</title>
		<link>http://thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/whitby-goth-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[reviewed by Martin Oldgoth.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7600079&amp;post=2046&amp;subd=thewhitbyindependent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extended schools &#8216;Me Too&#8217; scandal.</title>
		<link>http://thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/extended-schools-me-too-scandal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t read Real Whitby&#8217;s exposé on the developing scandal of the &#8216;extended schools&#8217; voucher scheme, do so at once. Part one and part two. Whitby campaigners are still doing spadework on this latest egregious abuse of taxpayer&#8217;s hard earned cash. There is more to come out about this. As Real Whitby notes, people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7600079&amp;post=2043&amp;subd=thewhitbyindependent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who could they mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scarborough Borough Council have accused: &#8216;INDIVIDUALS and pressure groups&#8217; of &#8216;abusing council complaints procedures, often over frivolous matters, to waste time and money, it has been claimed.&#8217; The allegation that &#8216;one unnamed individual&#8217; could have cost SBC £82,000 is faithfully reported in all its unsubstantiated glory in the Scarborough Evening News. Wanting to find out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7600079&amp;post=2039&amp;subd=thewhitbyindependent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slow start to Goth weekend.</title>
		<link>http://thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/slow-start-to-goth-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pubs and taxis have so far reported a sluggish start to WGW. &#8216;There&#8217;s not many goths around,&#8217; was the general view, and there were vacancies reported around the West Cliff guesthouses which are usually booked solid around WGW.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7600079&amp;post=2037&amp;subd=thewhitbyindependent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SBC and WTC: FOI requests.</title>
		<link>http://thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/sbc-and-wtc-foi-requests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SBC and WTC seem to be very competent at not answering FOIs and declaring citizens who dare to be persistent &#8216;vexatious&#8217; as a way of not releasing information. TWI intends to look into this and put some questions to the councils &#8211; which you fund &#8211; involved. If you have any FOI requests that are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewhitbyindependent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7600079&amp;post=2034&amp;subd=thewhitbyindependent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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