PLAID CYMRU VETERAN IN POOR HEALTH.(News)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: January 15, 2003 | Copyright information

PLAID Cymru father figure Gwynfor Evans, 90, was in hospital in Aberystwyth last night suffering from pneumonia.

The party's first ever MP - whose threatened hunger strike led to the establishment of S4C - was admitted to Ysbyty Bronglais last week. The former president of Plaid Cymru made party history by winning a 1966 to enter the Commons. The Tory government led by Margaret Thatcher established the Welsh fourth channel in 1982 after Mr Evans said he would starve hims...