Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Chaos in County Hall

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The live broadcast of Carmarthenshire County Council's monthly meetings has until today been executed professionally, with good camera w...
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Tomorrow's Council Meeting - a Christmas Special

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It is unlikely that seasonal cheer and goodwill will be much in evidence at tomorrow's meeting of Carmarthenshire County Council where t...
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Monday, 9 December 2013

Flame retardant underwear

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Readers of the South Wales Guardian were treated last week to a lengthy interview with Calum Higgins, Labour councillor for Tycroes. More o...
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Bedtime Stories: The Finder's Fee

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Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. Once upon a time Carmarthenshire County Council cooked up an extraordinary deal to ensur...
Friday, 6 December 2013

An expensive and grudging climbdown

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The Executive Board of Carmarthenshire County Council has finally backed down in its dispute over the payment of employer pension contributi...
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Democracy postponed

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Having said that it would not go in for a comprehensive reorganisation of local government, it now seems that Carwyn Jones's dithering a...
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Thursday, 5 December 2013

A preposterous and entirely fallacious claim

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It is sometimes said that attack is the best form of defence, and this is a tactic observers of Carmarthenshire County Council's monthly...
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Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Difficult Decisions - the Carmarthenshire Pensions Scandal

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Update 4 December In an interview with the South Wales Guardian ( here ), Kevin Madge acknowledges that the row over the pension and libe...
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Calum flies in

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There is not much left of local democracy in Carmarthenshire, and the Appeals Committee is to all intents and purposes the only remaining bo...
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Friday, 29 November 2013

Back behind closed doors....

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Following the recent outburst of transparency by a member of Carmarthenshire County Council's ruling Executive Board when Cllr Jeff Edmu...
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Thursday, 28 November 2013

The Scarlets, the Red Room and some puce faces

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If Carmarthenshire County Council were not already mired in enough scandals, it now seems that the council gifted the Scarlets around £600,0...
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Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Acutely aligned - the South Wales Evening Post

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It didn't take long for the South Wales Evening Post to respond to directions from Local World chairman, David Montgomery, to open up t...
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Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Cuts consultations

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The county council is holding a cuts roadshow in different parts of the county. Yesterday it was the turn of Newcastle Emlyn, although thank...
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Monday, 25 November 2013

Ebenezer Madge's Christmas Message

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The latest 42-page edition of Carmarthenshire News has just arrived at Tŷ Cneifiwr, with jolly Christmas messages on the front page. Rather ...
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Saturday, 23 November 2013

Acutely aligned segmentation

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A quick rummage through the pages of this week's Carmarthen Journal showed that the newspaper must be raking in the advertising revenue ...
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Friday, 22 November 2013

Legless down at the Quercus Petraea

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The sessile oak, or quercus petraea, is a species of oak which grows over much of Europe and parts of western Asia. Someone or other designa...
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Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Carmarthenshire and the Bedroom Tax

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The campaign to kill off what is left of democratic debate and decision-making in the council chamber in Carmarthen is hotting up. Caebrwyn ...
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