Thursday, 27th October, 2022
Cabinet call-in: school funding
An extraordinary meeting of Pembrokeshire County Council’s schools and learning overview and scrutiny committee is being held tomorrow afternoon. It’...
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Thursday, 30th June, 2022
Ballot box dodgers
Some quite fairly anticipated my post-election writeup much sooner. It’s delayed and won’t cover many contests, but my pre-election preview wasnR...
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Wednesday, 4th May, 2022
Just browsing
We’ll have to wait until Friday’s vote count to know who they are, but Pembrokeshire’s new cohort of councillors emerging from tomorrow’s local elections may never experience a pre-pandemic-style full council chamber. Fully remote meeti... Read more →
The 2022 Pembrokeshire County Council election is already notable for its high number of uncontested seats. Nineteen of sixty councillors – your author included – have been returned without any opposition, meaning the 2022-2027 council is more than... Read more →
Tuesday, 29th March, 2022
Holding back?
There’s a week to go until nominations for Pembrokeshire County Council’s 2022 election close. One thing most council-watchers seem to agree on is j...
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Monday, 28th February, 2022
Grumpy’s return
And so, we reach the last day of February. In 2022 this turns out to be a particularly notable date, but not because it’s a leap day. Old Grumpy, the auth...
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Monday, 17th January, 2022
Pay-off probes go public
Even those with only a passing interest in local politics have wondered why the investigation by Audit Wales into the unlawful £95k pay-off to Pembrokeshire County Council’s former chief executive, Ian Westley, as signed off in 2020 by the authorityR... Read more →
• Audit Wales report finally finished • Confidential draft shown to PCC’s new CEO only • Will be made public soon – but possibly as late as February, 2022 • Claim has been made that full council was deliberately bypassed as a red line in pa... Read more →
Sunday, 14th November, 2021
‘Settlement Agreement’ decision deferred
Monday’s extraordinary meeting of Pembrokeshire County Council (November 8th) was convened to consider a secret report titled “Settlement Agreement.” This seven-page document was presented only to councillors. The public are prevented from se... Read more →
Pembrokeshire’s county councillors have this afternoon been put on notice of a second extraordinary council meeting in relation to the former chief exec&#...
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