Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more

Back in April 2015 the Llanelli Star (article has now gone but I blogged about it here ) reported that the police had to be called to a ...

20th October; See later post Legal Charge £190,390 - Court hearing . The hearing is on December 1st 2016 in Carmarthen 4th August ; My...

Update 26th July After a very lengthy meeting, most of which concerned the changes to Llangennech schools to Welsh medium, the Board vo...

Update September 2016; Keeping close to the nest   Update 13th July at end of this post. Previous post; Pembrey Park scandal - an up...

Carmarthenshire County Unison branch have launched a campaign against the council's plans to outsource part, or all of social care s...

Later post 11th July here . Scroll to end of post for update 6th July Back in March an internal audit report emerged identifying se...

Update 29th July - The hearing Well, I'm not sure what that exercise set out to achieve, other than another means to apply unneces...

Back in April 2015 I mentioned the fact that the word 'Acting' had recently vanished from the job title of the Council's He...

Carmarthenshire Council's recent foray into public question time at meetings has, to put it politely, been a bit hit and miss. Unt...

Readers of the Carmarthenshire and Llanelli Heralds will be familiar with columnist Cadno's excellent turn of phrase, and this week...

Given my current circumstances I was particularly aware yesterday that it was five years to the day since the #daftarrest incident at ...

July 15th ; Following my own enquiries with the police commissioner's office I've been informed that the police are still carryi...

Update 14th June ; In the final draft of the email protocol which is before the Exec Board on Monday June 20th the authorisation for tra...

As I mentioned a while back, far from becoming open and transparent our best council in Wales appears to be retreating into secrecy like...

Later post 4th July; Pembrey Park scandal, an update Update 13th June ; The Herald article is now online; Senior officers covered up ...

Update 20th May: This week's Carmarthenshire Herald reports that the Wales Audit Office have told Mr James, via Cllr Dole, where t...

One of the recognised drawbacks of webcasting council meetings is the possibility that more agenda items may be discussed behind closed ...

July 15th - Informed by the police commissioner's office that the police are still carrying out the investigative assessment of the...

Pantycelyn update 17th May ; A council press release states that Rhys Pritchard Primary school will, depending on an officers report, m...