My tribute to Old Grumpy:
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 →
Tuesday, 31st March, 2020
Lockdown life
As we all try our best to get used to lockdown life, there are no end of news stories doing the rounds, and for many, no end of spare time in which to read them...
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Saturday, 29th February, 2020
Gatecrashing Farmer Glyn’s gig
Among the chairman’s announcements at Thursday’s full meeting of Pembrokeshire County Council, Cllr. Simon Hancock paid tribute to Folly Farm’...
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Thursday, 30th January, 2020
Grants probe postponed
Several people have been asking me what’s happening with Pembrokeshire County Council’s audit committee’s grants probe. This is the one that&#...
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Tuesday, 31st December, 2019
Hits of the decade
As we come to the close of yet another year and indeed this century’s second decade, I thought it was opportune to look back over some of this blog’s most popular hits. Started in June 2012 – the month after I was first elected to Pembrokeshi... Read more →
Saturday, 30th November, 2019
One for the road
There were nine candidates in the Hundleton by-election earlier this month, but it wasn’t the victor’s vote tally everyone was talking about. Pembroke pub landlord Jonathan Nutting, who had already served as a Pembrokeshire county councillor nearby... Read more →
Sunday, 13th October, 2019
Hundleton by-election
If you think you’ve spotted some familiar names among the ten nominations submitted to contest next month’s Hundleton by-election, you’re not ...
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Monday, 30th September, 2019
Pearls before swine
Readers will recall my recent tip that Monkton councillor Pearl Llewellyn was changing her political affiliation again – this time joining PCC’s Lab...
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Friday, 30th August, 2019
Lost in the reshuffle
August was a typically quiet month for County Hall developments until Tuesday’s announcement that the council’s leader, David Simpson, is appointing...
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