MEMBERS of Extinction Rebellion Aberteifi have joined groups across the UK in demanding "Stop all fossil fuel investment".

The campaign group have held several protests outside Barclays bank in Cardigan over the last year and last week events were held in front of the Barclays bank in Carmarthen.

They said they were protesting at “the amounts of money it puts into supporting the fossil fuel industry.”

The action in Carmarthen was part of the ‘Impossible Rebellion’, where XR campaigners across the UK were demanding an immediate stop to all new fossil fuel funding.

One XR supporter Jane Mansfield, a retired district nurse and grandparent from Pentrecagal, joined the large protest in London.

She said: “I have no option but to protest as the future depends on it, and it feels better trying to do something rather than sitting at home worrying about the careless way our government (and others) treat the future”.

Philippa Gibson, from Pontgarreg, recently left her job teaching Welsh to adults in Cardigan to have more time to campaign for the climate.

She said: “We can see the evidence of climate change around us, in the more frequent and more intense flooding in the Teifi Valley, as well as on our television screens showing more distant places suffering extreme weather

“In chatting with people in Carmarthen, it was clear that more and more of us are becoming deeply concerned as we see climate catastrophe approaching so fast”.

Sarah Wright served for many years as a Cardigan Town Councillor, and also taught at Coleg Ceredigion. She’s now also a member of Cardigan XR.

She said: “We need Barclays and other banks to stop investing in fossil fuels, and we need our governments to act far faster to bring about the changes we need to reduce our carbon emissions.

"A global agreement to deal with the hole in the Ozone layer in the late 1980s was successful, and this shows what can be achieved when world leaders act decisively.

"We need that kind of action now - not just words and promises. Ordinary people need to let their politicians know that this is an issue we care about.”