Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more

For information; I have now issued proceedings in the High Court for libel against Chief Executive Mark James and Carmarthenshire County C...

An interesting development has occurred relating to the parking ticket (PCN) I acquired during the #daftarrest incident on the 8th June in ...

Further to last Thursday's post Carl Sargeant to encourage councils to allow filming I have just watched the Assembly Petitions Commit...

As I  mentioned on Wednesday, fellow blogger @Towy71 has steadfastly refused to sign the Council's bizarre filming 'undertaking...

Further to previous mentions I have made about the Towy Community Church and it's Excel project in Carmarthen I strongly suggest you go...

A story has emerged today on the worrying news that Carmarthenshire Council has spent £100,000 on private detectives over the past three ye...

I was reminded today by the Assembly Petitions Office that my petitions are back in front of the Committee next Tuesday (15th). Here's...

Right then, today's meeting. I was pleased to meet @Towy71 at the door. As you will see from his blog ( Orwellian Stuff ), and to his g...

Online article from Political Scrapbook (@psbook) about camera/gun nonsense in the USA; See full article for all the links and a video; W...

Following on from recent posts, This blog has had site of further correspondence between Cllrs Sian Caiach and Arthur Davies and the Chief ...

With Wednesday's full council meeting looming on the horizon I am hoping, as I have said before, that others will join me in requestin...

For a brief change of tempo I am posting a couple of thoughtful poems written by younger residents of Carmarthenshire. The first was writte...

It's not often I feel inspired to write anything positive about our Welsh Councils but one in particular has impressed me this evening. ...

Yet again, democracy takes another turn for the worse in Carmarthenshire. You may recall my recent posts dealing with the Constitution and ...

One of many varied and I am sad to say, pointless ways in which residents can contact Carmarthenshire Council is through this ironically ti...

I trekked down to County Hall, Carmarthen again today to observe the Executive Board meeting. The meeting itself was distinctly underwhelmi...

Well, back down to earth and back to business. And back to those changes to the constitution mentioned in recent posts ( here and here  fo...

I am really surprised and delighted that this blog won the Best Politics Blog category at the Wales Blog Awards last night in Cardiff. I...

Further to recent posts (including here and here ), I see in today's Carmarthen Journal that Plaid Carmarthenshire Councillor for Llie...

I am pleased to see, courtesy of Alun Williams' blog, that Aberystwyth Town Council has made a small step into the world of transparenc...

Some time ago I wrote to the Welsh Minister for Local Government, Mr Carl Sargeant asking if he could challenge the bizarre, undemocratic a...