Monday, 4th March, 2013
Stock rotation
At numerous points during Thursday’s meeting, the leader found himself trying to defend his decision to sack Cllr. Peter Stock from his position on the Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Panel, who he replaced with Cllr. Steve Yelland. Cllr. Adams pulled the p... Read more →
Sunday, 3rd March, 2013
Black Thursday
With protesters at the door of County Hall on the way in, and a packed public gallery eager to witness debate on the council’s controversial pay and grading review; Thursday morning’s meeting had the recipe to be an interesting affair. And so it tu... Read more →
Monday, 25th February, 2013
Quick fix? (audio)
Yesterday morning, ‘Sunday Supplement,’ the weekly review of Welsh political life and the Sunday papers on BBC Radio Wales invited ex-leader of the WLGA, ex-leader of Pembrokeshire County Council and very current IPG member for the Cilgerran ward to talk... Read more →
Thursday, 21st February, 2013
Pay and grading review
As a brief preface to the very current pay and grading review, under equal pay legislation, claims have cost the council a lot of money. Last summer out of cour...
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Wednesday, 20th February, 2013
You get what you pay for
Readers of this week’s Western Telegraph may have noticed it’s had a bit of a content overhaul. And if they didn’t spot the new features on offer inside its pages, going by the recent slew of critical comments posted on the newspaper’s Fa... Read more →
Sunday, 17th February, 2013
Looking after number one
You may remember a few months back I covered the very first gathering of the Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Panel members (see Bob a job.) This outfit, like others up and down the country, was set up to scrutinise the performance and decision-making of the new c... Read more →
Tuesday, 12th February, 2013
Internally grateful
In the wake of the surprising news that Cllr. David Wildman is to step down from the council, there has been no end of speculation as to who might fill his shoes. And what a rack of footwear there will be left to fill. The Burton seat for which the Tories, Lab... Read more →
Sunday, 10th February, 2013
Still in the picture
Readers may have noticed a range of new slideshow images on the homepage, before scrolling down to see the blogposts underneath. If you’ve taken a photograph of a Pembrokeshire scene you would like to appear on the homepage, get in touch. The new images ... Read more →
Wednesday, 6th February, 2013
Gone for a Burton
I received a telephone call this morning from the author of that other website. In a rather excitable tone he explained that a Burton villager had got in touch ...
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Thursday, 31st January, 2013
Bend it like Beckham
The mid-season football transfer window closes at midnight this evening, and everybody knows that the best (or at least the most newsworthy) deals are the ones ...
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