Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more

Private Eye 31st October 2012 Yet another deserved appearance of our council in the Rotten Borough section of Private Eye....sevent...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an open email to the Minister for Local Government, Carl Sargeant (Lab) which was published in the Wester...

Good half hour programme on BBC Radio Wales this afternoon about jargon in politics, or 'the language of obfuscation and spin'. ...

Bloggers in Carmarthenshire hoping for enlightened transparency from the council website continue to be disappointed. The abysmal effort kno...

The sentencing of the perpetrators of the appalling abuse at Winterbourne View yesterday serves as a timely reminder of the case of Car...

Readers will recall that in terms of democratic debate, the last full council meeting on the 10th October was one of the worst, with, am...

Back to our council's 'partnership' with the evangelical Towy Community Church Ltd. In December I mentioned that 'Christ...

The Odeon cinema complex, the latest phase of the council led project, Eastgate leisure development was opened the other week. Promoted...

The fall out from the Week In Week Out programme rumbles on and has attracted much discussion and a general disbelief that the council, ...

The Sainsbury's/misuse of council resources row continues and the Chief Executive has responded to the complaints from the MP and AM...

Pleased to see that, further to the Week In Week Out programme, Plaid AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas is calling for a public inquiry into Carmart...

Thank you to the Western Mail for printing my letter today, it was the open email I sent to the Minister of Local Government, Carl Sarge...

I hope everyone watched Week In Week Out, if you missed it there's a link to BBC iPlayer at the end of this post.. It was an excel...

As you may recall from my post the other day, Carmarthenshire council misses the point , the Policy and Resources Scrutiny Committee wer...

More Freedom of Information scaremongering today on the BBC from Steve Thomas, Chief Executive of the Welsh Local Government Associatio...

I found further evidence this morning of the parallel universe inhabited by Carmarthenshire Council. Members of the public, and bloggers...

BBC Wales Online 16th October; Carmarthenshire Council failed harassed couple, Ombudsman says ) Next Tuesday's edition of Week In Wee...

From: K THOMPSON <kthompson855@btinternet.com> To: "carl.sargeant@wales.gov.uk" <carl.sargeant@wales.gov.uk> Sen...

I am not going to repeat all I have said about the Council's  involvement (and £1.5m) in the Towy Community Church Excel project, yo...

Back to County Hall today for the monthly instalment of 'how not to do democracy', or the full council meeting if you prefer. ...

Ahead of tomorrow's full council meeting, Plaid Cymru Carmarthenshire have issued a statement (as below). which includes the publica...

Finally, at long last, Carmarthenshire Council have completed their report on the mysteries of 'e-government', which includes th...