Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more

It has been noted of course that Carmarthenshire's Executive Board is back up to ten Members again, it went down to nine a couple of yea...

The agenda for the adjourned AGM meeting has now been published which actually contains a few links. Firstly, is the disappointing 'Pro...

The 'new' Executive Board for the Council has been announced by Leader Cllr Kevin Madge. According to a commenter the Indie Group me...

The BBC reports that Council Chief Executive, Mark James has received a fine for parking on double yellow lines just yards from a council ru...

The Welsh Government issued a promisingly titled White Paper the other day called 'Promoting Local Democracy', on inspection it doe...

Back to the public gallery this morning for the first instalment of the AGM. Back as well to the so-very-welcoming signing in ritual and the...

Short of an uprising at Thursday's council meeting, Cllr Kevin Madge (Lab) will be voted in as the new Leader of Carmarthenshire County ...

So after endless speculation ( latest rumours ) a formal statement has now been issued to the press confirming that deals have been done and...

Back in January I asked the Wales Audit Office to investigate the council's involvement with the evangelical Towy Community Church Excel...

Here's the latest rumour, from an anonymous commenter on my previous post , I repeat, it's still only a rumour as no official statem...

With the question of the council leadership and control still under intense speculation it's probably pointless me mentioning it again u...

I hear that yet again County Hall are having rather too much say on the contents of the local papers. This time it involves the current disp...

Further to my previous post , rumours have been rife over the bank holiday weekend concerning the leadership of the council. Although Pla...

I see that the grappling for power in Carmarthenshire Council has begun. Plaid have issued a statement appealing to individual councillors ...

Back briefly to the matter of allowing the public to film council meetings. Last year, in July, not long after my arrest, St Clears Town Co...

Well, I didn't win the election, and for the record, veteran sitting councillor Tom Theophilus had 307 votes, I had 264 and the Tory can...

Council Chair Ivor Jackson goes to vote........ Double yellows?...on a junction?.....perhaps he can't afford the parking charge...

Just a reminder to the electors of Carmarthenshire to please pop out and vote tomorrow. I am, of course, standing for Cilycwm ward and will ...

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I have followed the relationship between Carmarthenshire Council and the small evangelical o...

With a spectacular piece of election bandwagon jumping, Council Leader Meryl Gravell has announced that if her administration returns to pow...

According to fellow local candidate, Cllr Tom Theophilus, Plaid Cymru have not put a candidate forward in this ward as they are perfectly ha...

As election fever continues apace here in Carmarthenshire (well, sort of) and Caebrwyn's posters, carefully laminated with sellotape wit...

Readers may remember my recent efforts to extract the expenses details of thirteen senior officers from a reluctant Carmarthenshire council...

http://www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk/English/council/electionsandvoting/Documents/spnCOUNTY.pdf With every seat contested it looks like an i...

Interesting debate a couple of weeks ago in a plenary session at the Senedd concerning local government transprency, essentially the filmin...

I was almost heartened to see this promising tweet from the Council press office on Friday; "@CarmsCCPress.....making real efforts t...

I am now officially an independent candidate for the County Council elections on May 3rd! I handed in my nomination papers this morning at C...

A call-in request has been made to the Welsh Government concerning the proposed Sainsbury store in Llandeilo by William Powell, Lib Dem Ass...