A COMMITTED group of activists battling to protect health services in Blaenau Ffestiniog have taken their case to a selection of Welsh politicians.

A delegation from the Ffestiniog Memorial Hospital Defence Committee travelled to Cardiff to engage in a series of meetings with AMs from a range of political parties.

The committee members say they received promises of cross-party support from all the AMs they met and that “the universal view” of the AMs was that the plans for a healthcare service in the Welsh Uplands were “not good enough”.

The AMs in question were Labour’s Joyce Watson and Plaid Cymru’s Rhun ap Iorwerth, Dai Lloyd, Neil Mackay and James Radcliffe.

On previous occasions the group has also consulted and found support from UKIP’s Neil Hamilton.

When asked to comment on the committee’s visit, a spokesman for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said: “Work on the new integrated health and social care centre Canolfan Goffa Ffestiniog is progressing well."

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