Tuesday, 31st August, 2021
First move in Westley pay-off saga
Members of Pembrokeshire County Council are on notice of an extraordinary meeting – the opening salvo in what’s expected to be a long season of fallout from last year’s controversial £95k departure of the authority’s chief executive, I... Read more →
Thursday, 22nd July, 2021
Senior council officer disciplinary move
New disciplinary processes to consider misconduct allegations against Pembrokeshire County Council’s most senior officers have been announced. Papers publ...
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Sunday, 4th July, 2021
Probing questions
Early indications suggest some interest has been stirred by my last blogpost on the pending fallout over the cloudy 2020 paid departure of Pembrokeshire County Council’s CEO, Ian Westley. It’s triggered Milford Haven councillor Stephen Joseph to ta... Read more →
Monday, 28th June, 2021
Movement and plot-twist in pay-off probe
There’s finally some definitive movement in Audit Wales’ probe into the unexpected and still-not-fully-understood 2020 departure of Pembrokeshire Co...
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Tuesday, 20th April, 2021
Bramble’s gamble?
I was surprised to see that the final candidate in Pembrokeshire County Council’s chief executive recruitment process was openly identified in public papers, published before his appointment. As this blog previously revealed, when a councillor let slip a... Read more →
Thursday, 25th February, 2021
Running gag
When Pembrokeshire County Council’s chief executive, Ian Westley, unexpectedly left the authority last year he did so with a £95k pay-off secured through a secret deal. The statutory auditors are now “currently examining the circumstances that led... Read more →
Sunday, 14th February, 2021
Don’t tell him, Pike!
Bitter disappointment for the anoraks hoping to sit down with a cup of tea to watch the archived video of Monday afternoon’s outing of Pembrokeshire Count...
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Tuesday, 26th January, 2021
Auditor probes Westley deal
It’s not often that a meeting of Pembrokeshire County Council’s snoozy corporate overview and scrutiny committee is the authority’s most hotly...
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Thursday, 24th December, 2020
Tweeting turkeys
When Bryn Parry-Jones hastily departed Pembrokeshire County Council as chief executive in 2014, he not only bypassed gross misconduct proceedings but scarpered through the back door with a barrowload of nearly £300k. Not a peep has been heard from him since. ... Read more →
Sunday, 6th September, 2020
Trouble at the top
The revelation that Pembrokeshire County Council’s chief executive, Ian Westley, is leaving the authority caused great surprise this week. I’ve been asked many questions on this bombshell over the past few days – correspondence including thre... Read more →
