After nearly 15 years of campaigning, a local health pressure group is to disband.

The Ffestiniog Memorial Hospital Defence Committee, after 14 and a half years of campaigning to save and then to reinstate essential health services in the area, has finally decided to bring its campaign to an end this summer.

The group was set up to fight plans to remove beds from the town’s hospital and reinstate other services such as x-ray facilities and minor injuries cover when the memorial hospital was turned into a health centre.

A number of rallies were held and petitions signed over the last 15 years and as recently as January, the committee wrote to Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board to object to its plans to sell off an old physiotherapy clinic on Towyn Road.

The committee argued that the building was erected with local contributions as a memorial to the 54 young men from the area who lost their lives in the Second World War.

The town council is now working on a plan to convert the building into a much-needed hospice for the area.