Wednesday, 5 June 2013

News from the Reptile House

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Labour Uncut is a website set up by Labour Party activists in the wake of the 2010 general election defeat to act as a platform for party me...
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Saturday, 1 June 2013

Why you should think twice about sending an e-mail to your councillor

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Imagine that you want to send your county councillor some highly confidential and sensitive information. You  trust your councillor and beli...
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A bad day for County Hall's PR machine

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Cneifiwr bumped into an old acquaintance yesterday who complained bitterly about the boredom he endured as he watched the first ever broadca...
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013

It's four more years of Kev and Pam

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Pam Palmer's motley collection of closet Tories came third in last year's council elections and are not what most people would consi...
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The Planning Lottery

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Caebrwyn has already covered criticism by AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas of the peculiarly inconsistent approach taken to planning by Carmarthenshire...
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Saturday, 25 May 2013

A Template for Success

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Not a great deal seems to be happening at Carmarthenshire County Council, at least not if the published record is anything to go by. The ann...
Friday, 24 May 2013

News from the Law Courts

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Readers of John Mortimer's Rumpole stories will remember that this fictional old barrister was not always entirely respectful of the jud...
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Cracking down on benefits claimants

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Earlier this week listeners to the PM programme on Radio 4 would have heard an interview with a man talking about his experiences as a benef...
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Thursday, 23 May 2013

The Royal We

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A month ago the MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Jonathan Edwards, put down an Early Day Motion in Parliament to air concerns about the p...
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Beach Broke

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One of the things which Carmarthenshire County Council likes to make a great deal of noise about is its regeneration schemes to attract busi...
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Carl Sargeant rejects Penybanc Call-In Request

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Dyfodol i'r Iaith , the campaign group founded last year, reported yesterday that it had been notified by the Welsh Government that its ...
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Monday, 20 May 2013

No more Mr Nice Guy

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Anyone interested can now view footage of last week's Annual General Meeting of Carmarthenshire County Council online. As predicted, t...
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Sunday, 19 May 2013

News from Carmarthenshire

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With apologies to regular readers for the lack of posts in recent weeks. Cneifiwr has his nose to the grindstone at the moment, but here is ...
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Thursday, 16 May 2013

Council Censors at Work

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Hold The Front Page , an online site carrying news about the UK regional press, reports that 27% of local newspaper editors have been thre...
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Watching Paint Dry

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Update After the utter tedium of the morning session, Cneifiwr resolved to go and get a life, but was dragged back by urgent messages sugg...
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Focussing on Hamster Bedding

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Carmarthenshire County Council has announced that it intends to hold a "consultation" on its bi-monthly propaganda sheet, Carmart...
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Saturday, 11 May 2013

Lights, Camera and ....Action!

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Next week will mark the start of a pilot to film meetings of the full council in Carmarthenshire as the pageant of the Annual General Meetin...
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Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Different hymn sheets

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"New alley opening will bowl you over" screams the headline in the Carmarthen Journal , announcing the forthcoming much delayed op...
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Monday, 6 May 2013

An arbitrary exercise of power

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It is no secret that there is no love lost between fellow blogger Jacqui Thompson and a handful of people at the top of Carmarthenshire Coun...
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Saturday, 4 May 2013

A bleak outlook

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As businesses go in this part of the world, Scarlets Regional Limited is quite a big one, and so the very late publication of its results fo...
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Sunday, 28 April 2013

Because he's worth it

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Cneifiwr's lawn needed urgent attention on Friday, but thanks to feedback from several loyal readers (Sid and Eirlys Bonkers of Llanelli...
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