Plaid Cymru Pontypridd On Your Side

Petition to Secure Future of Cilfynydd Surgery launched

Councillor Hywel Gronow has this week received confirmation from Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board that Taff Vale Practice has made an application to close the Cilfynydd branch. It is the intention of the Health Board to conduct a 6 week patient engagement exercise and every patient over the age of 15 living in the Cilfynydd ward will be contacted in the coming weeks to provide an opportunity for local voices to be heard.

Whilst encouraging everyone affected by the proposal to take part in the consultation, Cllr Gronow has also launched a petition to try and secure the future of the surgery, with the intention of presenting it to the health board. The petition can be signed here or via a paper copy.

Responding to the news, Cllr Gronow said: “This news is hugely disappointing and I know that many people in Cilfynydd will be concerned.

“For months, I have been calling for the future of the surgery to be secured as I know how important the service is to our community.

“Over the coming weeks, it is important that our voices are heard by the Health Board so that the surgery is saved.”

Scott Bevan has been chosen to stand in the Llantwit Fardre ward for the community council.

Scott Bevan said: “I am pleased to be chosen by Plaid Cymru locally to stand in the Community council by-election on Thursday 22 June.

“I stood last year for the first time for the county council seat. It is time for a fresh start for the Llantwit Fardre ward.

“The main theme of my campaign is connecting our community, which means people and places.

Rhun ap Iorwerth MS has been confirmed as the new Leader of Plaid Cymru.

Read about Heledd Fychan MS month in the Senedd here.

Following Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Cabinet's decision to approve a proposal to close Garth Olwg Care Home, Heledd Fychan, Plaid Cymru Member of the Senedd for South Wales Central has expressed her disappointment on behalf of the residents and staff of the home.

Plaid Cllr for Tonyrefail East joined with Tonyrefail Environment Association to help clean up Cilelai.  The photo shows a very wet and muddy bunch of litter pickers after the session - lots of bailing plastic left with feed and lots of bags left at the top of the lane to the kennels as well. 

Last week, Welsh Government confirmed that the cut to Bus Emergency Scheme (BES) – originally due to end in March 2023 – would be extended to June 2023.

However, speaking in Questions to the First Minister, Leader of Plaid Cymru, Adam Price MS, said that this merely delayed the risk to services and jobs – a concern that has previously been raised by industry body Coach and Bus Association Cymru.

On the day that Wales play their first Football World Cup game for 60 years here is an article published by https://nation.cymru/ and writen by Heledd Fychan MS.

Whilst getting ready for school one morning last week, my nine-year-old son was singing ‘Yma o Hyd’.

He’s also been singing it in his class and in the schoolyard with his friends – an indication that Dafydd Iwan’s epic song and the Cymru Men’s Football Team anthem for the World Cup have captured the imagination and hearts of a new generation of fans.

And with Cymru’s journey at the World Cup starting tomorrow, we’ll no doubt be hearing a lot more of ‘Yma o Hyd’ in the coming days and weeks.

‘Only a total rejection of Brexit lies can fix broken Westminster politics’, Liz Saville Roberts MP

Plaid Cymru Westminster leader, Liz Saville Roberts MP will today (Saturday 21 October) issue a keynote speech to Plaid Cymru’s annual conference in Llandudno.

She will warn Keir Starmer’s Labour party that they will face the “same irreconcilable contradictions” as the Tories if they fail to reject “Brexit lies”.

"It's Time for RCT to Join the 21st Century"

That is the call by Pontypridd Town Councillor, Dawn Wood.