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Brawling councillors
Not quite sure what it is about Llanelli Rural Council but, not for the first time, the police have been called to an 'altercation' between two councillors.As the Llanelli Star reports, the two...
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Annual Reports - fact or fiction?
Back in 2013, Councillors' Annual reports began to trickle onto the website and although they're not compulsory at the moment, that could change following the Local Government Reform White Paper. The...
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Herald Friday
This week's edition of the Carmarthenshire Herald is, again, worth 50p of anyone's money. It's good to see, at the bottom of page two, a report on the story I covered earlier in the week. It concerned...
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Credit cards and hotel bills
Unlike England, and a couple of local authorities in Wales, Carmarthenshire Council doesn't believe in publishing any spending details. Extracting such information is painful to say the least. If any...
View ArticleMembers and Minutes
Somewhat inspired, I have to say, by a recent post from Pembs councillor and blogger, Old Grumpy, 'Name-calling', I'm now wondering why Members in Carmarthenshire aren't named in the minutes of...
View ArticleThird Sector muddle and culture changes
As part of the council's efficiency savings a non-negotiable £1m is to be sliced off funding to the third sector, ie voluntary groups, charities and the like. This process started roughly a year ago...
View ArticleOut of time..
Back in February, following speculation that the aborted severance application made by the chief executive may have incurred some legal expenditure, I made the following Freedom of Information...
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Filming Welsh councils - Failure in Flintshire
The effort to shine a light on Welsh councils continues. As we know, legislation was passed last year in England protecting citizens' democratic right to film or record open meetings; the principle has...
View ArticleFriday's Herald...and Cadno goes to Grillo
Passers-by have again reported seeing steam issuing forth from the windows of the Presidential Suite, County Hall. This is becoming a regular occurrence every Friday and appears to coincide with the...
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The Governance Review...part 94
The general election will soon be out of the way and Carmarthenshire Council will be able to revert to form without fear of influencing the voters. I suspect that the very recent scandalous events,...
View ArticleElection Results for Carmarthenshire 2015
After what seemed to be the most frenzied campaigning in living memory there's no change in this corner of Wales. Plaid's Jonathan Edwards held Carmarthen East and Dinefwr with an increased majority...
View ArticleThe lady vanishes...and next week's meetings
One person who will not be in the Chamber for next week's meetings is the "first female director" at Carmarthenshire County Council, Ms Chrisitna Harrhy, who has resigned after just three months in the...
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Is County Hall turning its guns on the Herald? Yes it is...an update
Update 9th May; I am now able to add some details;The marketing team for Carmartheshire's three theatres, the Lyric, Ffwrnes and The Miners - part of the leisure department - are being leaned on by...
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Cadno considers the Guru of Garnant...
With rumours that the knives are out from within the Labour group, Kevin Madge's future as leader of Carmarthenshire council hangs in the balance (or perhaps he's asked them to put him out of his...
View ArticleKevin Madge loses leadership challenge - updated...resigns as leader of the...
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 Carmarthenshire Council. He will still be a councillor of course.He thanked the...
View ArticleAll kicking off in County Hall - Labour lose control...updating
Update;18:10;BBC reporter @aledscourfield confirms on Twitter that a deal has been struck between Plaid and the Independents. It now seems that Plaid leader, Cllr Emlyn Dole will lead the council, his...
View ArticleMay meeting....all on best behaviour
This post was written after yesterday's full council meeting and before events unfolded a few hours later. Further comment on those events will follow later today.With everyone on best behaviour for...
View ArticleStatement from Cllr Sian Caiach
Statement on the Plaid/Independent deal from unaffiliated Carmarthenshire County Councillor, Sian Caiach:"I'm instinctively very disappointed with Emlyn Dole going into coalition with the Affiliated...
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Changes at County Hall - My tuppence worth
Well, it's been an interesting couple of days. Jeff Edmunds has achieved the world record for the shortest leadership in history and Meryl's distate for that particular arrangement turned the coalition...
View ArticleToday's papers
Things appear to be growing increasingly acrimonious in County Hall with the South Wales Evening Post reporting on accusations made by Labour's Jeff Edmunds. Cllr Edmunds, who had unseated Kevin Madge...
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