ABERAERON Swimming Pool and Ysgol Gyfun Aberaeron were in a dilemma when government austerity measures forced Ceredigion County Council to cut the funding for secondary school swims.

Aberaeron Town Council has now agreed to step in and has given a grant of £4,000 to the pool to safeguard swimming for the secondary school pupils for this year.

Aberaeron town mayor Rhys Davies is pictured presenting the cheque to pool manager Martine Branford and headmaster Owain Jones.