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The Westminster Government has announced that the Winter Fuel Payment – worth up to £300 - will now be means-tested. Only pensioners on Pension Credit or other means-tested benefits will receive it. This cut could leave half a million pensioners in Wales worse off.

Means-testing the Winter Fuel Payment will place people’s health at risk, placing even further pressure on our NHS.

It was great to welcome close to 100 members from across the Valleys to Pontypridd on Saturday 28th September.

As the Party celebrates one its best-ever Westminster General Election results it is important that we look towards the Senedd and Council elections.

Parking Meter Campaign Success!

 After a campaign, led by Plaid Cymru Cllr Dawn Wood, lasting well over a year RCT Council have agreed to install Parking Meters that accept both cash and card.  Previously only accepting cash was having a detrimental impact on shops in Pontypridd Town Centre as people without cash on them drove to out-of-town shopping centres.

 Thank you to everyone who voted for Plaid in Pontypridd.  In a night that saw a Tory-free Wales Plaid Cymru pushed the Tories into 4th place in Pontypridd.  At the same time getting the Party's highest share of the vote in the constituency in over 20 years.

Local Pontypridd Plaid Cymru members select Wiliam Rees, 25, to be “a fresh voice for Pontypridd” at the next General Election.

Wiliam Rees, 25, is standing as the Plaid Cymru candidate in Pontypridd for the next General Election. 

Announcing his campaign, Wiliam Rees said “I want to be a fresh voice for Pontypridd in Parliament. I want to be an MP who will listen to local residents and act on their behalf.

 The Plaid Cymru Councillors for Cilfynydd and Ynysybwl together with Heledd Fychan (Senedd Member for South Wales Central) have presented petitions signed by over 500 residents to the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board. 

The petitions both oppose plans by Taff Vale Surgery to close their premises in both villages.

Plaid Cymru has responded to the evidence given by Vaughan Gething MS, the former Welsh Health Minister, and Labour First Minister candidate, to the UK Covid Inquiry today, 11 March 2024.

Mabon ap Gwynfor MS, Plaid Cymru’s Health and Care spokesperson, said:

What’s clear from today's shambolic testimony at the UK Covid inquiry is that the Labour Government in Wales was ill-prepared for Covid.

New Warm Hub for Church Village

A new Warm Hub is available regularly in Church Village, thanks to volunteers from St.Illtud’s Church.

There will be a Warm Hub every 1st, 3rd, and 4th Thursday of the month from 9 a.m. – 12 noon at the Ty Illtud Centre, (St Illtud's Road, Church Village, Pontypridd, CF38 1EB).

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.