Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more

Update 4th June; The council have announced this morning that the call-in requests for one of the Grillo applications - the one for 23...

The letter's page in this week's Carmarthenshire Herald features a poem - I've no idea who wrote it but a Gold Star to whoev...

Update 20th October 2015 ; News reports today confirm that the charges against the three Caerphilly council officials have now been dro...

Back in January, in a post about potholes and budget cuts to highway maintenance of £3.3m over the next three years, I included a refere...

This week's Carmarthenshire Herald continues with another detailed article on the disturbing deprivation of liberty case covered in l...

Source; Carmarthen Journal (Update below) Rumours are now circulating that there could be yet another challenge to the Labour g...

Council prayers Over recent years, various well-documented methods have been employed to curtail topical and controversial debate in t...

Things appear to be growing increasingly acrimonious in County Hall with the South Wales Evening Post reporting  on accusations made by...

Well, it's been an interesting couple of days . Jeff Edmunds has achieved the world record for the shortest leadership in history an...

Statement on the Plaid/Independent deal  from unaffiliated Carmarthenshire County Councillor, Sian Caiach: "I'm instinctivel...

This post was written after yesterday's full council meeting and before events unfolded a few hours later. Further comment on those...

Update;18:10; BBC reporter @aledscourfield confirms on Twitter that a deal has been struck between Plaid and the Independents. It now s...

Update 12th May 16:00; As per my last update, Kevin Madge has just issued a statement to say he has resigned as leader of Carmarthenshi...

With rumours that the knives are out from within the Labour group, Kevin Madge's future as leader of Carmarthenshire council hangs i...

Judging by this week's edition, and despite only being launched in March, the Carmarthenshire Herald appears to be coming under...

One person who will not be in the Chamber for next week's meetings is the "first female director" at Carmarthenshire Count...

After what seemed to be the most frenzied campaigning in living memory there's no change in this corner of Wales. Plaid's Jonath...

The general election will soon be out of the way and Carmarthenshire Council will be able to revert to form without fear of influencing ...