Saturday 30th November, 2019
One for the road
There were nine candidates in the Hundleton by-election earlier this month, but it wasn’t the victor’s vote tally everyone was talking about. Pembroke pub landlord Jonathan Nutting, who had already served as a Pembrokeshire county councillor nearby... Read more →
Sunday 13th October, 2019
Hundleton by-election
If you think you’ve spotted some familiar names among the ten nominations submitted to contest next month’s Hundleton by-election, you’re not ...
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Monday 30th September, 2019
Pearls before swine
Readers will recall my recent tip that Monkton councillor Pearl Llewellyn was changing her political affiliation again – this time joining PCC’s Lab...
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Friday 30th August, 2019
Lost in the reshuffle
August was a typically quiet month for County Hall developments until Tuesday’s announcement that the council’s leader, David Simpson, is appointing...
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Tuesday 16th July, 2019
POLICE LETTER IN FULL: No further action in grant fraud claims
CPS DECIDES NO CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS TO BE TAKEN INTO ALLEGATIONS OF PEMBROKE DOCK PROPERTY RESTORATION GRANT SCHEME FRAUD • ‘INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE’ TO SUPPORT FRAUD PROSECUTIONS • GRANT FRAUD ALLEGATIONS DOSSIER WAS HANDED TO POLICE IN 2014 ... Read more →
Sunday 30th June, 2019
Carwyn’s comedown!
As Wimbledon fortnight starts tomorrow my mind turns to last year’s visit, which involved some particularly good fortune. I had Centre Court tickets for t...
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Friday 31st May, 2019
Get Carter
Readers will recall how Solva councillor Mark Carter was one of four Pembrokeshire county councillors who accused JW of breaching the members’ code of conduct over comments I had made at a January committee meeting. I had dared to use a four-letter word ... Read more →
Monday 29th April, 2019
Cosy complainers
You’ll recall at Pembrokeshire County Council’s last meeting in late February, Johnston councillor Ken Rowlands tabled the following question to the authority’s leader, David Simpson: A dictionary definition confirms that, “a Cosy Relat... Read more →
Sunday 31st March, 2019
Hazard an opinion
Last week’s conclusion of Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation across the pond caused quite a stir among those who had banked on a different outcome. To Donald Trump’s detractors the development that the extraordinary probe had foun... Read more →
Monday 18th February, 2019
Ken’s big book of words
Thursday’s meeting of Pembrokeshire County Council features a question tabled by Johnston councillor Ken Rowlands. The brown-nosing sermoniser’s levels of blind loyalty to unelected officers, and what he perceives to be their absolute infallibility... Read more →
