Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more

I was served Notice yesterday that Carmarthenshire Council chief executive, Mark James, has started High Court enforcement proceedings a...

As you may remember, the meeting of full council earlier this month considered an item on libel indemnities. The upshot and essence o...

Next week, on the 6th August, the new regulations come into force in England giving members of the public the legal right to film, tweet ...

Last month the staff of Carmarthenshire Council, were treated to a  bizarre message from the chief executive  in the Y Gair staff newsletter...

Interesting news from the Pembrokeshire press this evening that Gloucestershire Police are conducting a criminal investigating after new...

The minutes of the July full council meeting have just been published and of interest to Caebrwyn is the way in which Item 7, 'Libe...

No sooner had Caebrwyn sent her rather lengthy contribution to the WLGA governance review panel (full of helpful suggestions) than an inter...

I'm coming to the conclusion that council leaders, at least in the rotten boroughs of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, have acquir...

Anyone who watched last night's BBC Week in Week out programme will have been appalled by the way Pembrokeshire Council not only utt...

Update 16th July - Due to the fact that the WLGA only asked the Council to add contact details to its website yesterday (why they didn...

(Links to the archived webcast can be found at the end of this post) The meeting got off to the usual start with a prayer for guidance...

Yesterday in the Senedd, Plaid Cymru AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas asked the First Minister, Carwyn Jones (Lab) this question (translated); Rh...

Update 19.07 ; Plaid AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas raised the matter in the Senedd today. He questioned Carmarthenshire Council's position t...

For your information, Friday's Audit Committee meeting sees the first outing this year of the Council's Statement of Accounts f...

Update 6th July ; Cllr Sian Caiach has written urgently to Lesley Griffiths, Welsh Local Government minister, the full text can be found...

( Update 4th July 2014; See Libel indemnities on the agenda..and still unlawful ; The Welsh Government has not given the council, nor M...

One item on the 'wishlist' for the WLGA review panel to consider is the reversal of the excessive number of signatures required...

Further to yesterday's WLGA announcement , fellow blogger Cneifiwr and I have put together a 'wishlist' of some suggestions ...

Given that this is a matter of public interest, the Welsh Local Government Association have announced the governance review, and the pan...