Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more

Today's Llanelli Herald reports on an extraordinary email sent by Mr James to County Councillor Bill Thomas who represents Lliedi wa...

On issue identified by the WLGA Governance Review as a key element of the culture change programme was the council's whistleblowing...

It would be a bit remiss of me, given that the subject has cropped up once or twice on this blog (and even in court), not to mention yes...

Further to my previous post on the subject, news has reached Caebrwyn that the Welsh Government have rejected the rest of the call-in r...

The council's Waste Management contracts with Cwm Environmental Ltd, (wholly owned by the council and the largest operator) and AWS ...

Update 7th July; Please also see this excellent blog post on the Carmarthenshire archives from  h istorian and author, J D Davies; Carm...

The meeting is now available on archive . For the record, the written version of the 'presentation' which included the 39 WLG...

There's yet another twist over the funding for the Carmarthen West link road. As I reported, last week's full council meeting a...

Update 17th June ; Looks like the leak was spot on - BBC Wales confirms this morning that the proposals are for 8 or 9 councils instead...

(19th June; Please also see later post , written after the meeting) I use the word 'agenda' in the loosest possible sense as, ...

Further to my previous post Parc Howard - for the people of Llanelli? the Llanelli Herald has today published a video which includes fo...

For anyone interested in the breakdown of the £26,872 + VAT paid to Tim Kerr QC to defend the chief executive, senior officers and exec...

Update 10th June; Carmarthen Link Road funding The current projected cost of the link road is around £5m. As previously announced, th...

Update 9th June - Despite Cllr Caiach challenging the exemption over the item on the Carmarthen link road, the Plaid leadership, second...

(Later update, 11th June here ) Update 10th June; The story takes another twist in this week's Llanelli Star  [ 11th June ; The a...

Update 5th June ; The story has appeared in today's Western Mail . Plaid AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas is quoted as saying that "seriou...

As I'm sure many of you will have read, fellow blogger Cneifiwr has posted his last post this morning and is moving on to other things....

Back in 2012 (see 'More Cut and Paste spin' ) I noticed that quotes in council press releases attributed to Executive Board memb...

Interesting post from County Councillor Sian Caiach on the  People First  website which I've reproduced in full here, it is self-exp...