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Council Accounts 2014 - a few figures
For your information, Friday's Audit Committee meeting sees the first outing this year of the Council's Statement of Accounts for 2013 - 14. It's not complete, as it has yet to include the views of the...
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Libel indemnities - today's Western Mail - Updated
Update 19.07; Plaid AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas raised the matter in the Senedd today. He questioned Carmarthenshire Council's position that Ms Griffiths' letter justified the indemnity. The First Minister...
View ArticleFirst Minister confirms libel indemnity unlawful
Yesterday in the Senedd, Plaid Cymru AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas asked the First Minister, Carwyn Jones (Lab) this question (translated);Rhodri Glyn Thomas;"...will you join with me to condemn the fact that...
View ArticleJuly meeting; libel indemnities and "more 'satire', than 'Eastenders''
The meeting got off to the usual start with a prayer for guidance and good judgement (it never works, I don't know why they bother) and a very lengthy series of family announcements, parish notices and...
View ArticleCouncil Governance Review - Your views please! - updated with new deadline
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't use their own initiative I don't know) the deadline for the...
View ArticleWhistleblowing out west...and beyond
Anyone who watched last night's BBC Week in Week out programme will have been appalled by the way Pembrokeshire Council not only utterly failed to protect vulnerable children from a predatory youth...
View ArticleBodyguards
I'm coming to the conclusion that council leaders, at least in the rotten boroughs of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, have acquired an additional role, or 'portfolio' if you wish. This additional...
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Getting Engaged...
No sooner had Caebrwyn sent her rather lengthy contribution to the WLGA governance review panel (full of helpful suggestions) than an interesting item pops up for the next meeting of the Policy and...
View ArticleMisleading Minutes
The minutes of the July full council meeting have just been published and of interest to Caebrwyn is the way in which Item 7, 'Libel indemnities' was recorded for printed posterity.To the casual reader...
View ArticlePolice back in Pembrokeshire Council
Interesting news from the Pembrokeshire press this evening that Gloucestershire Police are conducting a criminal investigating after new evidence emerged over the unlawful pension payments, paid to...
View ArticleAnother Sermon from the Mount
Last month the staff of Carmarthenshire Council, were treated to a bizarre message from the chief executive in the Y Gair staff newsletter, exonerating himself from any wrongdoing over the pension...
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Filming council meetings - new law next week...in England only
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 or blog from open council meetings.Eric Pickles MP welcomes the...
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Libel indemnity - The Minister responds to Rhodri Glyn Thomas
As you may remember, the meeting of full council earlier this month considered an item on libel indemnities.The upshot and essence of it all was that the officers' report claimed that a letter from the...
View ArticleEnforcement of counterclaim damages
I was served Notice yesterday that Carmarthenshire Council chief executive, Mark James, has started High Court enforcement proceedings against me for his damages arising from the libel counterclaim.He...
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Western Mail reports on libel enforcement - updated
Link to article in today's Western Mail;Blogger fears she will lose home as Carmarthenshire council boss seeks libel winningsby Martin Shipton(blogpost 30th July; Enforcement of counterclaim...
View ArticleA Letter in today's Western Mail
A letter from a resident of Carmarthenshire published in today's Western Mail;Do these councillors feel threatened? Sir – That a public servant should be allowed to sue a local council taxpayer out of...
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Electoral Registration - Cabinet Office #fail
The Caebrwyn household and every other voter in the county, if not Wales, has received notice that voter registration is changing. Basically it means that every individual is now responsible for...
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Further coverage; "Blogger will fight to the bitter end"
Carmarthen Journal 13th AugustFurther to my previous post about the article in the Western Mail, this week's Carmarthen Journal reports on the ongoing attempt by Mr James to enforce payment of the...
View ArticleThird Sector to 'feel the pain'
As Carmarthenshire Council, like other Welsh Councils, looks to find extra cuts over the next few years, it seems it's going to start with third sector organisations; voluntary and community groups,...
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Meryl's Meetings
Individual Executive Board Member Decision meetings have always been closeted affairs with the public and press excluded. Most deal with fairly standard stuff although the more notorious ones include...
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