The roster of by-election candidates for the Pembrokeshire County Council seat vacated by the now jailed paedophile David Boswell (Tory) is quite interesting to say the least. Among the eight wannabes are three former county councillors – two who lost th... Read more →
Tuesday 10th July, 2018
Inviting suspicion
It’s amazing what you can piece together if you just soak in the information that emerges during some Pembrokeshire County Council committee meetings. Som...
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Saturday 30th June, 2018
The Dai is cast
With the multiple convictions earlier this month of serious historic child sex offences, town councillor, county councillor and Pembroke mayor David ‘Dai’ Boswell’s fall from grace has been quite the story. Where better to begin than the coun... Read more →
Thursday 31st May, 2018
Musical chairs
Rumours that my website hosting is the first casualty of financial cutbacks following my planning committee chairmanship stipend loss are nonsense! My blogging lull owes to the recent long spell of tennis-friendly weather. Perhaps a more accurate account would... Read more →
Sunday 22nd April, 2018
Knight in shining armour
Readers of the Tenby Observer or Western Telegraph may have noticed the same letter recently sent in to both by Tory grandee Sir Eric Howells. Both newspapers&#...
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Sunday 18th March, 2018
Boswell that ends well
There seems to be some misunderstanding of what Pembrokeshire county councillors were tasked with, and decided, during last Thursday’s full council discussion under the agenda item titled: “Pembroke St Mary North Electoral Division – Sections... Read more →
Monday 5th March, 2018
A civil question deserves a civil answer
When councillors table a question or notice of motion (NoM) to full council meetings we’re all emailed as and when they are approved. Before this rule cam...
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Sunday 4th March, 2018
Just a minute!
I was told of a comical turn in PCC’s latest debacle last week evoking images of drawers and filing cabinets being rooted through in desperation. To sum i...
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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 →
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