Chair and chair alike
Pembrokeshire County Council committee meetings with a 2pm start are something of a rarity at County Hall these days. But tomorrow sees an exception to the usua...
Inside man (or woman?)
Those paying attention to Pembrokeshire County Council’s full council meeting earlier this month will have been rewarded with a juicy revelation. Finance ...
It’s all going on…
And so the long wait is over for the residents of Pembroke’s St. Mary North ward, who today go to the polls in their long-anticipated by-election. Essenti...
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 →
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...
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 →
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 →
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...
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 →
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...