TOWY Valley pensioner Iori Jones is entering the second week of a hunger strike outside the Senedd in Cardiff.

Mr Jones, a former roofer who has been convicted 20 times of causing criminal damage to a council building in pursuit of what he claims is a moral crusade, has vowed to maintain his vigil until he is granted a meeting with Welsh Assembly and Carmarthenshire county council chiefs which he claims he was promised four years ago.

The 78-year-old has a long list of planning grievances against Carmarthenshire County Council and the former Dinefwr Borough Council.

“I’m up here in a tent and they tried to evict me, claiming I was blocking an access,” he said in a phone call to the South Wales Guardian.

“On my last protest here four years ago they let me use the toilets – but not this time.

“I haven’t had any food for nine days but feel OK.

I’ll be here for as long as it takes or until I get the meeting I was promised in 2009.”