A NEWCASTLE Emlyn family has raised more than £250 for the Wales Air Ambulance after they helped a heart attack victim.

At the beginning of October, local plumber Peter Lewis from Newcastle Emlyn suffered a heart attack.

The Wales Air Ambulance was summoned and he was taken to Morriston Hospital where he received urgent treatment.

His daughter Tracey Wilson says, if it wasn’t for the Wales Air Ambulance, her father wouldn’t be here today and is now on a mission to raise vital funds for the charity.

“If my father hadn’t been airlifted he wouldn’t have made it. By the time we drove to Swansea, dad had already had a stent put in his heart and this saved his life. The Wales Air Ambulance relies on donations to keep it going and receives no government funding. It costs anything between £1,000 to £1,500 to get the helicopter in the air every time it’s called out and I think it’s really important that people are made aware of the service and how it is run,” said Tracey.

To thank the Wales Air Ambulance, Tracey, her family and friends recently held a bake sale in Newcastle Emlyn and raised £258.14.

As a registered childminder, Tracey is also organising a sponsored walk for the children she looks after.

If anyone would like to sponsor the children on their sponsored walk, there is a sponsor form in GS News in Newcastle Emlyn or a Just Giving page.

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