Jacob Williams https://jacobwilliams.com

Public interest in Pembrokeshire County Council’s latest legal scandal shows no sign of abating. As the authority’s lawyers went further out on their limb with the suggestion that members’ seminars count as full council meetings, the odds of ... Read more →

Some significant updates, today, on Pembrokeshire County Council’s latest debacle. This relates to the authority’s legal duty, delegated by the council to chief executive Ian Westley, to declare the Pembroke St. Mary North seat vacant in order to h... Read more →

My previous blogpost sets out why Pembrokeshire County Council’s chief executive is now duty-bound to declare the authority’s Pembroke St. Mary North electoral division vacant. This is because the ward’s previously-elected councillor, Dai Bos... Read more →

• PEMBROKESHIRE COUNTY COUNCILLOR RELINQUISHES SEAT

• FAILS TO ATTEND SINGLE COUNCIL MEETING IN SIX MONTHS

• BY-ELECTION LOOMS FOR PEMBROKE ST. MARY NORTH

• BUT LEGAL BLUNDER CREATES INTERESTING TWIST…

Quite a few of you were interested by last month’s Western Telegraph story on Bluestone’s board of directors approving the formation of an employee benefit trust. In what we’re told is the “first scheme of its kind in the UK leisure ind... Read more →

Crisp and tender. That’s surely how Cllr. Jamie Adams felt on his drive home from Thursday’s full council meeting. Ousted as Pembrokeshire County Council’s leader following his ‘independent’ party’s ballot box drubbing at th... Read more →

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 →

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 →