Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more

(Update 3rd Feb 2017; Court date ) On Friday I received a court claim from Mr James, Chief Executive of Carmarthenshire County Co...

The decision made at Monday's Executive Board meeting to charge for green waste collection passed in the blink of an eye. I mentione...

Update, 9th November, below Since I became aware that the chief executive had made complaints to the police earlier this year I have b...

Update 28th October - The case was heard in court today. Mr Dickinson resigned from the council on Monday and changed his plea to guilt...

This week's Carmarthenshire Herald reports again on the mysterious business of the Council's flag flying habits. Of particular i...

Update 25th November; The hearing will now be on Friday 2nd December Update 20th October; The hearing has been brought forward to 1st ...

Quarterly target monitoring reports are not necessarily a gripping read but are supposed to inform scrutiny committees how well the coun...

This time last year, the Wales Audit Office highlighted problems with the council's valuation of assets, overstated to the tune of ...

My challenge to the Police Information Notice, or 'harassment warning', (see The police visit Caebrwyn , and Challenging the har...

As mentioned previously, the council has decided to buy the Guildhall building in Carmarthen for £250,000. Despite the state of disrepai...

The results from the Cilycwm by-election were; Dafydd Tomos - Plaid Cymru - 201 Arwel Davies - Independent - 151 Maria Carroll - Lab...

Sunday 18th September - just a reminder to voters, the by-election is on Thursday (22nd September), the polling stations are open fro...

As regular readers will recall, rather than the lid being publicly blown open earlier this year, an internal audit report was commission...

Update 7th September; Carmarthen Journal; Blogger Jacqui Thompson to fight election for Carmarthenshire councillor seat  *  *  * ...

Another excellent opinion piece from Cadno, in this week's Carmarthenshire Herald; Cadno asks for answers   Time is a great h...

Just to say that I am standing as a candidate for the Cilycwm seat on Carmarthenshire County Council. The by-election will be held on th...

Update 26th September 2016 - Police complaints logged I would like to make it clear from the start that I have no problem with the po...

This week's Cadno piece in the Carmarthenshire Herald takes a look at the council's continuing reluctance to fly the Rainbow fla...

(See also later post, 24th August Challenging the police harassment warning ) After four and half months I had a visit from two Dyfed ...

Later post 18th August; The police visit Caebrwyn As you can see from the front page, this week's Carmarthenshire Herald c...

Updates, 13th August and 17th August at the end of this post As I have mentioned , I was informed, via Mark James' solicitors at t...