I finished bottom of the poll in Bryncoch South. Congratulations to Janice Dudley and Chris Williams, the successful Plaid Cymru candidates. Bryncoch South – results Election Candidate Party Votes % Janice Dudley Plaid Cymru- The Party of Wales 848 25% Elected Chris Williams Plaid Cymru- The Party of Wales 808 24% Elected Emma Jane Denholm-Hall […]

Some of you will have cast your vote already through the postal ballot. To the rest of you who have a vote in these local elections, I say: please use that vote today. The polling stations remain open until 10 p.m. I trust you have voted, or will vote, for someone who wants to make […]

If elected as a councillor for Bryncoch South  tomorrow, May 4th: I will work to clean up Neath; I will, with my Liberal Democrat colleagues, aim to reverse the cuts to the council’s education budget for the running costs of schools; We will together look at a reform of the inflexible recyling scheme; I will set […]

I know that many Neath residents are concerned about rough sleeping. The council has to play its part, but needs support from central government. If elected, I will do my best to support Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron’s drive to end rough sleeping: He said: “It is a national scandal that so many people are […]

My views on extra housing in this area, expressed when I was councillor for Cadoxton, are on record. I trust that, should I be elected, they will not be regarded as fettering my discretion when this application is debated. For this reason, I had better say no more at present.  

Whatever caused my login to be frozen has now been cured. Thanks to the nice people at the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors who are very busy at the moment to take the time to provide a new password.

PC Chris Higgs has been redeployed to Pontardawe. Selection of a new PC for Bryncoch is under way.

Local residents (see Reader’s Letters in the Neath Ferret) have been concerned about the democratic deficit in Bryncoch South for some time. Neath Liberal Democrats, friends and former colleagues on the county borough council have persuaded me that I am the man to step in to the breach. I am therefore standing for election to […]

I set up this blog (courtesy of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors) when I became councillor for Cadoxton in 2008. Times move on, and the party’s candidate for the ward in the council elections soon to be upon us is Sheila Kingston-Jones. She is already well known to many people in Cadoxton, but to […]

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