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Private Eye article about dirty tricks employed by Scarborough Borough Council against North Yorks Enquirer journalist Nigel Ward

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Private Eye article about dirty tricks employed by Scarborough Borough Council against North Yorks Enquirer journalist Nigel Ward

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CoRR SCARRED BOROUGH IRTY tricks in North Yorkshire, where an amateur hack who has repeatedly embarrassed local councils has been the target of a malicious allegation of benefit fraud. Earlier this month Nigel Ward, a pensioner who contributes to the tenacious “Real Whitby” website, received a visit from a Department for Work and Pensions fraud investigator. He was following up an anonymous tip that Ward was earning money from running Real Whitby — which if true would affect his entitlement to means-tested pension credit (which he receives due to having an incomplete national insurance record, having worked abroad in the past). Ward was able to satisfy the investigator that he doesn’t “run” Real Whitby, which is owned by someone else, but is merely an unpaid contributor. Before he left, the DWP man let slip that the anonymous allegation had “emanated” from Scarborough town hall. Real Whitby has published a number of true stories that have embarrassed both Scarborough borough and North Yorkshire county councillors — failure to declare conflicts of interests over a mining scheme, double claiming of IT allowances, a senior Tory’s undeclared interests in failed businesses, and the unpalatable fact that the late, féted former mayor of Scarborough, Peter Jaconelli, was a predatory paedo. The investigator’s visit was not entirely wasted, however. Ward showed him a copy of former North Yorkshire and Scarborough councillor Bill Miller’s 1996 claim for disability benefit — a claim which, if successful, was odd, because Miller was as able- bodied then as he is now. He recently married his partner of more than 30 years, Tory councillor Jane Kenyon (Eyes passim), erstwhile chair of the late North Yorkshire police authority, who now goes by the name Jane Kenyon-Miller. Ward has written to Scarborough council’s director of legal services, Lisa Dixon, asking her to look into the apparent attempt to smear him. He is confident that her investigation will be as thorough as in previous cases of council wrong-doing he has exposed.

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