Police have installed CCTV at the site of a roadside memorial after vandals attacked it again at the weekend.

The iconic ‘Cofiwch Dryweryn’ mural on a wall on the outskirts of Llanrhystud was graffitied again last week and, just a day after being repainted by volunteers for the second time in as many months, vandals attacked again, tearing down the top of the wall.

Over the weekend, volunteers came from across Wales to sift through the rubble and rebuild the wall, with an online fund-raising effort launched by Aberystwyth student Elfed Wyn Jones, one of the volunteers who repainted the mural in February, topping £3,700 in just two days.

“This mural is an important landmark in Welsh history which symbolised the pain that the drowning of the village of Tryweryn caused in the 1960s,” Mr Wyn Jones said.

“After the mural was desecrated numerous times in the last few years, we want to make sure it’s secure and protected for future generations.”

Ceredigion AM Elin Jones, who has called for more to be done to protect the site, said that the latest incident is “a disgraceful affront to our history”.

Meaning ‘Remember Tryweryn’, the original graffiti appeared after the village of Capel Celyn in Gwynedd was flooded in 1965, sparking widespread protests.

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