Sunday, 21 October 2012

PRide in your council

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Any residents of Carmarthenshire wanting to know how much their council spends on shindigs such as the Chartered Institute for Public Relat...
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Saturday, 20 October 2012

Champagne All Round in PR Awards!

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Congratulations go once again to Carmarthenshire County Council which scooped the award for the most Outstanding In-House Public Relations T...
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The Big Lottery Fund and a community newspaper

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Syniadau reports here on the decision by the Big Lottery Fund to turn down an application for a small grant from the Welsh community newsp...
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Friday, 19 October 2012

Pulped - the Police Commisisoner Elections

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The farce that will be the police commissioner elections looms ever closer, with most people unaware that anything is happening at all, and...
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The James Journal

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Update 20 October Unlike the Carmarthen Journal, the South Wales Guardian carried a report on the blatant manipulation of procedures at t...
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Thursday, 18 October 2012

Planning in Carmarthenshire - a public inquiry?

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Update 19 October West Wales News Review ( here ) has delved deep into the planning history behind the story of Trisha Breckman and the n...
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Wednesday, 17 October 2012

The Breckman case - enter the council's Press Office

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In the run-up to the broadcast of last night's edition of Week In Week Out Carmarthenshire County Council issued a statement to a numb...
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A stain on our county

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Imagine that you have worked all your life and reached retirement age. You buy a cottage after a careful search, and then discover that your...
Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Week In Week Out - Fear and loathing in County Hall

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Update Anyone who saw tonight's programme will have been shocked and stunned that any council could behave in this way, and sadly Dyf...
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Lifting the lid

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It was good to see that two Plaid Cymru councillors were responsible for proposing an amendment to Carmarthenshire County Council's draf...
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Monday, 15 October 2012

Stories wot we rote in the last week

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There was general agreement among Carmarthenshire's councillors last week that Leighton Andrews had been right to order the regrading o...
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Sunday, 14 October 2012

Week In Week Out

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At last week's meeting of the full council the leader of Carmarthenshire, Kevin Madge, boasted that the other 21 Welsh councils would l...
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Saturday, 13 October 2012

Cultural insensitivities

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At this week's appalling monthly meeting of the full council, Carmarthenshire's leader, Kevin Madge (will it be the Jag or the Merc...
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Friday, 12 October 2012

Kev's Bungalows and Her Ladyship

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The two centre pieces of Kevin Madge's administration in Carmarthenshire are an ambitious programme of upgrading council-owned homes an...
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Thursday, 11 October 2012

October Council Meeting - Part 3: The pillow is administered

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Discussion of the Council's Annual Report and Improvement Plan continued, with attention next turning to the Welsh language. The la...
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012

October Council Meeting - Part 2: The Death Throes

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The council's Annual Report and Improvement Plan is a huge document, full of jargon, riduculous claims and silly pictures. It has smile...
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October Council Meeting - Part 1: A sickly patient

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Carmarthenshire County Council has been a basket case of local government for some time, but it is no exaggeration to say that we reached a...
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Monday, 8 October 2012

Rwandan Discussions in Pembrokeshire

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Andrew Mitchell, the Tory Chief Whip who was recently in the news for calling police officers in Downing Street plebs, has been making more...