Wednesday 22nd November, 2017
Millions down the drain
Cherries may be out of season as we approach Christmas but the following concerns a costly punt, not punnet. This is Pembrokeshire County Council’s large Cherry Grove office complex, which has so far swallowed up £3m of your hard-earned cash – and... Read more →
Tuesday 31st October, 2017
Draft dodgers
Local government law requires the committee appointments of us councillors who aren’t affiliated to any political group to be made by full council. The un...
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Saturday 30th September, 2017
A senior moment
I was interested to read last week’s complaint Mid Bedfordshire MP Nadine Dorries sent to the civil service chief executive concerning a government official’s conduct. Sir David Norgrove, chairman of the UK Statistics Authority, had written a press... Read more →
Thursday 31st August, 2017
Memorandum of underhand things?
The ‘future’ plans for post-16 education provision in Pembrokeshire go back at least five years, deep into the Bryn Parry-Jones era. A lack of polit...
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Monday 10th July, 2017
Margot against the flow
Seven of the nineteen newly-elected Pembrokeshire county councillors in May’s poll are independent, and of those, only Margot Bateman OBE joined the forme...
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Monday 5th June, 2017
Why so shy, Dai?
Residents of Pembroke’s St. Mary North ward will find out in the next few weeks if they’re to face a county council by-election. The prospect has arisen because, in a bizarre twist, the newly-elected Conservative candidate in last month’s gen... Read more →
Tuesday 23rd May, 2017
Winners and losers
The 2017 Pembrokeshire County Council election has seen nineteen new councillors returned and some big changes to the chamber’s political composition. Share this... Council leader of the 2012-2017 term, Cllr. Jamie Adams, eventually conceded defeat to hi... Read more →
Monday 15th May, 2017
How dairy!
The depths to which Jamie Adams will stoop are infamous. It would seem that nothing’s off-limits. As leader of Pembrokeshire County Council he’s bee...
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Tuesday 9th May, 2017
JAMIE’S SCRABBLE FOR POWER REACHES DESPERATION
• LOW TURNOUT AT JAMIE ADAMS’ LEADERSHIP PITCH MEETING • IN DESPERATION HE REACHES OUT TO ALL NEW COUNCILLORS BY EMAIL – SEE BELOW • LABOUR PA...
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The close of nominations for the 2017 Pembrokeshire County Council elections earlier this month was somewhat underwhelming. The revelation of who was standing, where, and the thirteen councillors returned to the council unopposed must have been pretty deflatin... Read more →
Knight in shining armour (4)
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Boswell that ends well (20)
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“Pembs. Exile, precisely my thoughts. A mountain has been made...”
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“Over the last few years we have seen many wishing...”
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A civil question deserves a civil answer (23)
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“Keanjo, if the Local Government Association did as you say,...”
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TIMED-OUT COUNTY COUNCILLOR LOSES SEAT (20)
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“Monitoring Officer 10 - Legal Amateurs nil.”
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“As one of the candidates who stood in the Pembroke...”
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If it doesn't sound or act like a council meeting... (21)
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“Jacob, please would you clarify the position in regard to...”
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“The C.E.O. on a couple of webcasts has stated his...”
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Just a minute! (9)
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