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Chart-topping Carmarthenshire Council
Today's Wales on Sunday reports on the '55 Welsh Council employees taking home six figure salaries' .Carmarthenshire Council, making cuts of £16m over the next three years, tops the chart. (and...
View ArticleWLGA...one of life's mysteries.
The article in the Western Mail about senior council officers' pay, which, as you saw from my last post, starred Carmarthenshire Council as top of the bill, featured the usual defence from the Chief...
View ArticleMidweek news bulletin
As Cneifiwrreported earlier in the week, Welsh Minister Carl Sargeant has refused to call-in the 289 home development in Penybanc, double the number allowed under the current Development Plan. He...
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Are you healthier and wealthier?...probably not.
It's that time of year again when the council tells us that we are healthier, wealthier and wiser through the endless pages of the Annual Report and Improvement Plan. In reality, you probably feel...
View Article'Pot luck' planning
On the 23rd May a planning application was passed for a development of 61 houses in Llandovery, there was considerable opposition, one objection being that the Unitary Development Plan (UDP) only...
View ArticleWorrying news from Cllr Sian Caiach...
The entry below is cross-posted from County Councillor Sian Caiach's People First website;Saturday 1st June 2013 Covert Surveillance of People First Councillor Like all Carmarthenshire County...
View ArticleLibel case - further comment
Carmarthenshire County Council issued a further statement yesterday in relation to their costs of the libel action, which I am now liable to pay. I was asked for my views and comment from the local...
View ArticlePowers, Pay, and summer madness in Burry Port...a news round-up
A few news stories caught my eye yesterday, the first was the announcement from the Ombudsman that he'd like to have further privacy powers. He'd like to make some reports completely confidential and...
View ArticleA couple of links - the Councillor's email and the Madaxeman blog
Further to my earlier post 'Worrying news from Cllr Sian Caiach', the Western Mail has picked up the story here, Councillor complains to Information Commissioner after local authority accesses her...
View ArticleWe are the champions
After a meeting of Executive Board members last week, council leader Kevin Madge in the latest PR move, announced several new 'Champions' and 'Ambassadors' of 'key themes' from amongst the politburo....
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Communion lager....
There's great excitement building up for Thursday's grand opening of the Towy Community Church evangelical bowling alley, in partnership with Carmarthenshire Council. The council have given the...
View ArticleYesterday's webcast - almost home and dry...
Yesterday's live streamed council meeting started off according to plan, or according to the script anyway. For those unaccustomed to these meetings, the lengthy intro about fire alarms (note; members...
View ArticleWelsh freedom of speech 'suppressed' say Eric Pickles
Eric Pickles is again turning his attention to Wales, and, not for the first time this year, (see 'Eric Pickles raises concerns about Carmarthenshire Council funding libel action') has mentioned...
View ArticleGetting involved
It's good to see new Members getting involved with council matters, Cllr Darren Price (Plaid) springs to mind, not only challenging the email 'snooping' at last week's meeting but standing up to the...
View ArticleWelsh Government backing 'Town Hall tyranny', says Westminster
Further to Eric Pickles' published letter, (see 'Welsh freedom of speech 'suppressed' says Eric Pickles' ) to the Welsh Minister, Lesley Griffiths, the row appears to be escalating.As reported by ITV...
View ArticleNews round-up
Next week's Executive Board meeting will back safely on home turf. Residents of Newcastle Emlyn were recently honoured with one of Kev's 'On the Road' Executive Board trips to the outback....
View ArticleAn evening at Llywnywermod
Charles finally closed the front door after a long and traumatic day pleasing the peasants in Carmarthenshire..or was it Caernarvonshire he always got them muddled up.... 'Camilla!' he called, 'fetch...
View ArticleTeam building
Carmarthenshire County Council's devotion (£1.4m worth of devotion) to the evangelical organisation, the Towy Community Church is well documented and the bowling alley (featuring toddler play area...
View ArticleCaerphilly Council Chief Executive arrested on suspicion of fraud
Update 20.52pm - The other individual who was arrested today along with Anthony O'Sullivan was his deputy Nigel Barnett, who has been acting chief executive of the authority since his boss was...
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The importance of filming meetings - updated
The Minutes to last month's full council meeting have just been published and provide a perfect example of why meetings should be filmed. It was filmed of course and remains in the archive, a true...
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