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 →
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…
Read more →Sunday 28th January, 2018
Blue-sky thinking
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 →
One for the road (2)
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Hundleton by-election (6)
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“Been looking high and low for platforms on Shirley Margaret...”
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“Mike, the local rumour is that Steve Alderman was approached...”
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Pearls before swine (5)
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“Jacob I think I understand how with only 59 councillors...”
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“When I look at the goings on at PCC all...”
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Lost in the reshuffle (12)
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“Henry points out that the responsible officers in County Hall...”
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POLICE LETTER IN FULL: No further action in grant fraud claims (26)
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“As a person who spent all of his working life...”
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“I find it incredulous that the council claim that vital...”
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Carwyn's comedown! (13)
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“I'm not sure what point you're trying to make about...”
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“"Bayard, firstly, I don’t think it’s true" How about the...”
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