Eisteddfod boost for town hit by mass job losses

The Urdd Eisteddfod is bringing a much-needed boost this year to an area that has been hit hard by job losses at the country's biggest steelworks, organisers have said.

Europe's largest youth festival takes place this week in Margam Park near Port Talbot, where the closure of the blast furnaces last year at Tata Steel led to 2,800 redundancies and uncertainty for the local community.

Cassius Walker Hunt, a former steel worker who was made redundant along with many of his friends, said the layoffs were "devastating".

He switched careers to set up his own business selling coffee and said he was "so proud" of the way he had turned his fortunes around, with a location at this year's Eisteddfod.