A LLANYSTUMDWY museum dedicated to the only Welsh prime minister is set to be saved after receiving a financial boost in Chancellor George Osborne’s budget.

The future of Lloyd George Museum was put at risk after Gwynedd Council’s Cabinet announced it planned to withdraw funding for the museum in its 2016/17 budget, but last month said that the decision would be defer­red until 2017.

However, Mr Osborne announced that the museum will get £27,000 a year over three years from 2017/18.

The news has been welcomed by the Welsh Liberal Democrats who had been calling on the Welsh Government to make the Lloyd George Museum part of the National Museum of Wales in order to safeguard its future.

The campaign had received recognition and endorsement for the campaign from Lloyd George’s great-grandson, David Lloyd George, Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor.

Chair of Gwynedd and Anglesey Liberal Democrats and Gwynedd councillor for Dolbenmaen, Steve Churchman, said: “David Lloyd George served as Britain’s only Welsh prime minister and was arguably the politician that saved Britain from defeat in the First World War.

“I opposed the closure plans from the beginning as I believe to have allowed this museum to close would have been unforgivable, the loss incalculable.”

The Lloyd George Museum was established in 1947, two years after David Lloyd George died.

The museum launched a £250,000 centenary appeal earlier this year.

See the full story in this week’s Arfon/Dwyfor edition of the Cambrian News