Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more

Next week's Executive Board meeting will back safely on home turf. Residents of Newcastle Emlyn were recently honoured with one of K...

Further to Eric Pickles' published letter, (see 'Welsh freedom of speech 'suppressed' says Eric Pickles'  ) to the W...

It's good to see new Members getting involved with council matters, Cllr Darren Price (Plaid) springs to mind, not only challenging ...

Eric Pickles is again turning his attention to Wales, and, not for the first time this year, (see ' Eric Pickles raises concerns abo...

Yesterday's live streamed council meeting started off according to plan, or according to the script anyway. For those unaccustomed t...

There's great excitement building up for Thursday's grand opening of the Towy Community Church evangelical bowling alley, in par...

After a meeting of Executive Board members last week, council leader Kevin Madge in the latest PR move, announced several new 'Champ...

A few news stories caught my eye yesterday, the first was the announcement from the Ombudsman that he'd like to have further privacy...

Carmarthenshire County Council issued a further statement yesterday in relation to their costs of the libel action, which I am now liable...

The entry below is cross-posted from County Councillor Sian Caiach's People First website ; Saturday 1st June 2013  Covert Surv...

On the 23rd May a planning application was passed for a development of 61 houses in Llandovery, there was considerable opposition, one o...

It's that time of year again when the council tells us that we are healthier, wealthier and wiser through the endless pages of the A...

As Cneifiwr reported  earlier in the week, Welsh Minister Carl Sargeant has refused to call-in the 289 home development in Penybanc, do...

The article in the Western Mail about senior council officers' pay, which, as you saw from my last post, starred  Carmarthenshire Co...

Today's Wales on Sunday reports on the '56 Welsh Council employees taking home six figure salaries'  . Carmarthenshire Cou...

Further to A vexatious request? (May 3rd), and just in case anyone is still following the lengthy saga of my Freedom of Information req...

Update; BBC article which includes a bit about me;  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-22529784 I have also recorded a pi...

The annual Town Hall Rich list was published today by the Taxpayers' Alliance. Carmarthenshire earns a special mention as having tw...

Update 7th May The ICO have informed me that I have no other option other than to go through the complaint procedure yet again, so I ha...

A couple of weeks ago the Llanelli Reds, the town's troubled 114 year old football club was wound up by the high court over tax debt...

Barnet council claimed a very hollow victory yesterday when the judgement was handed down concerning a Judicial Review application agai...