Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more

According to early reports, the Council issued a press release at 5pm yesterday (Monday) with the announcement (finally, after two years...

Inserted into the Councillors' documents for council meetings is a short note reminding them how to behave. One can only wonder what...

On Tuesday (26th) the council Chamber will yet again echo with the unique sounds and deviations of democracy, in the style we've gro...

The libel case concluded yesterday after a six day trial at the high court in London and the judgement was reserved until a later date. ...

I had a slightly delayed response the other day to my recent Freedom of Information request for three 'exempt' reports.  I aske...

I managed to spare a couple of hours this morning to go to County Hall for the first of this month's meetings of full council. The n...

Back in July 2012 I noticed in the council accounts that the Chief Executive of the council  appeared to have had a £20,000 pay rise , b...

The Welsh Government have announced that they are allocating £1.25m to help councils 'improve local democracy and public engagement...

Rumours have been reaching Caebrwyn this week that there may be elements amongst the Independents and possibly even in the Labour group t...

You may have read about the recent row over Caerphilly Council's Chief Executive 'secret' pay rise of £35k. A special commit...

If anyone was wondering what had happened to the Plaid group's Motion for press freedom, rejected for debate in the Chamber by the C...

I am approached by many residents of the county who have had a bad experience with Carmarthenshire Council's planning department......

As I have mentioned, the budget proposals are currently going through the various scrutiny committees in what passes in Carmarthenshire f...

Further to this post, Chief Executive censors debate on press freedom ', that well known exponent of transparency, leader of the Ind...

Carmarthenshire Council must have been training Wrexham Council in the dark arts of press control, or PR disasters perhaps. Reporters in ...

To anyone who has ever met either myself or fellow blogger Y Cneifiwr, 'militant and extremist' are probably the last words to s...

Censorship from County Hall takes yet another turn for the worse as an attempt by the Plaid Cymru group to have the issue of press freed...

I have been aware for some time that Councillors have been having problems accessing Carmarthenshire blogs on their council computers.......

The Western mail reports today that Carmarthenshire Council could possibly be in breach of EU State Aid rules in their controversial fun...

Today's South Wales Guardian features an article from Cllr Peter Hughes Griffiths the leader of the 28-strong Plaid Cymru group on C...

A Happy New Year to you all and many thinks for visiting the blog. Looking forward to the new term at the Towy Kremlin and an action pac...

As I have mentioned, next year's assorted budget proposals are currently under 'consultation' by the various scrutiny commit...

I'm sure County Hall will, as we speak, be celebrating their success as winners of Private Eye's Rotten Boroughs' 'PR P...

Last week the South Wales Guardian used its front page to expose the Council's attempt to financially cripple the independent weekly...