Wednesday, 7th August, 2013
UPDATE: Bend it like Beckham
On 31st January, you may recall that I uploaded a post called ‘Bend it like Beckham,’ which alluded to a Pembrokeshire Councillor who, at the time, was rumoured to have been considering switching his political affiliation by throwing in his lot wit... Read more →
Tuesday, 6th August, 2013
A costly ‘investment’
A recent disclosure made by Pembrokeshire County Council following a Freedom of Information request submitted by a jacobwilliams.com regular, has revealed that the current value of the council’s “investment” in the Bluestone holiday resort would hardly c... Read more →
Wednesday, 24th July, 2013
Doctor Dolittle he ain’t!
Cllr. Simon Hancock, cabinet member for Adult Services and Equalities, has just been announced as the successful applicant for the vacant role on the Hywel Dda Health Board. Cllr. Hancock is, in my opinion, easily Pembrokeshire’s most ‘involved’ councill... Read more →
Tuesday, 23rd July, 2013
Democracy in action
The tone of Thursday’s meeting of full council was set quite early on in the piece. Even before the chairman had completed his announcements, his mobile phone went off in his pocket. Twice. In many ways it was like an episode of Judge Judy. I’ve never ... Read more →
Thursday, 18th July, 2013
To hell with the expenses
Without an appearance on the pages of this website in some time, Cllr. Bob ‘Long Grass’ Kilmister is to receive the rare double – two mentions...
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Wednesday, 17th July, 2013
Hidden agenda?
With the summer meeting of full council tomorrow at 10am, it’s not so much what’s on the agenda that interests JW, but what doesn’t appear on ...
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Friday, 12th July, 2013
Indecent disclosure
Following the county council’s eleventh hour decision to pull its controversial Civic Amenity Site application from the National Park’s planning agenda last month, I submitted a Freedom of Information request each to Pembrokeshire County Council, and to th... Read more →
Thursday, 11th July, 2013
Call for clarification following Bluestone buy-out
It was announced this week that the Bluestone holiday resort has been subject to a management buy-out. Both the Western Telegraph and BBC Wales news report that...
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Tuesday, 2nd July, 2013
Threat of legal action still looms over CHC members
Over three months since the news was broken on this website, the threat of legal action still hangs over Hywel Dda Community Health Council’s Chairman Tony Wales and Vice-Chair Dr. Gabrielle Heathcote. In March of this year, I revealed that Opinion Rese... Read more →
Tuesday, 25th June, 2013
The gift that keeps on giving
The serialised articles published by the Western Telegraph profiling the county council leader, Cllr. Jamie Adams after a year in the top job, has gone down a r...
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