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High Court enforcement bailiffs
As I mentioned briefly on Twitter, I had a visit yesterday from High Court bailiffs with a writ to seize goods on behalf of council chief executive Mark James. This action is in relation to the...
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In brief; Budgets, LATCs, and Meryl gets cornered
Well, moving on...I was intending to write about last week's council meeting but became somewhat distracted after the unexpected knock at the door last Thursday, so apologies for that.Next Tuesday...
View ArticleBudget Day in County Hall
The council's budget finally made it's tortuous way to the annual rubber stamp at today's gathering of our elected members.As I have already mentioned (there are several blogposts since the proposals...
View ArticleHigh Court Bailiffs - Article on WalesOnline
Further to my earlier post concerning the visit from High Court bailiffs, instructed by Mr Mark James on the 11th February, the Western Mail has published an article which is currently online here.As I...
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CEO's libel settlement claims untrue - Carmarthenshire Herald
Pic source; Carmarthenshire Herald Facebook pageThe Carmarthenshire Herald (out today, Feb 26th) has investigated the remarks made by chief executive Mark James, to Wales Online, in that I was...
View ArticleThe 'Wellness Centre', and other news.
The new proposed super-dooper 'Wellness centre' for Delta Lakes, Llanelli has been getting quite a bit of press coverage recently, that's all it's had mind you, a lot of aspirational twaddle and no...
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News Round-up - Schools, Scrutiny, Salaries...and today's Herald
Schools, scrutiny, questions and filmingNext week's Education Scrutiny Committee has the usual list of the latest schools up for closure, or 'reorganisation' as our council prefers. Nothing unusual in...
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Caebrwyn's blog - seven years old
I feel I should mention, in passing, that this blog is seven years old today. It has had its ups and downs, to say the least, and some of it has sadly passed to the great blog burial ground in the sky....
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Less important Executive Board Members forced to take 'pay' cut? And other news
Arm-wrestlingBack in November the council's Democratic Services committee rejected a proposal from the Independent Remuneration Panel for Wales to cut some Executive Board Members''salaries' by around...
View ArticleThe Matter of Costs
After dealing with bailiffs, instructed by Mr James to recover his damages (now £35,000 plus daily interest) for the past few weeks, Monday's Executive Board agenda includes an exempt item titled...
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Pembrey and Millenium Country Parks - A fine mess...
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that a worrying internal report on the leisure facilities at Pembrey Country Park and the Millennium Coastal Park was due to be considered by the Council's Audit...
View ArticleCarmarthenshire Council to pursue me for libel costs
I have learned, from today's Carmarthen Journal that the Executive Board, at it's secret meeting on the 21st March, resolved to join the queue and pursue me for the costs of the libel case from 2013,...
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"Council leader under fire over leak to local press" - The Carmarthenshire...
Update 6th April; For a neat, considered and excellent piece on the libel case and subsequent events, please click on the link to Cneifiwr's blog;Y Cneifiwr - A Tangled...
View ArticleApril Agenda - and Country Park questions
Next Wednesday's (13th April) full council agenda has been published and whilst there are no questions from the public, there are a handful of questions and Motions from councillors. None, I note,...
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Vote for Sian Caiach and People First on May 5th!
Good luck to Sian Caiach and People First for the Llanelli constituency Assembly election, and the regional list, on May 5th. Sian is on Facebook and Twitter and her website is here.
View ArticleAn indemnity...or not an indemnity?
As I have already mentioned, the Council's Executive Board have 'unanimously' decided to pursue me for £190,390 legal costs. At the same meeting, they decided to defer a decision on the £41,000...
View ArticleApril shower...and the long grass
Previous post - April agenda - country park questionsUnfortunately Meryl wasn't present at today's full council meeting to answer those awkward questions over Parc Howard from Cllrs Bill Thomas and Jan...
View ArticleCaebrwyn under fire
I have received a letter from solicitors representing the chief executive of Carmarthenshire Council Mark James. The letter alleges that I have breached undertakings relating to Mr James' counterclaim...
View Article21,800 postal ballot papers scrapped...and other news
As the Herald reports, the potential for electoral chaos is on the cards with over 20,000 postal ballot papers for the Regional Assembly election being scrapped, at unknown cost, after an error was...
View ArticleThis week's Cadno, from The Carmarthenshire Herald
As I have said here, Caebrwyn under fire, the chief executive of Carmarthenshire council, Mark James CBE seems currently preoccupied with having me locked up through both the criminal and civil courts....
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