A Goodwick grandad is delighted that after months of campaigning, he will receive a non-invasive treatment for prostate cancer.

Alistair Hendrie was diagnosed with prostate cancer last September and contacted the Western Telegraph in disgust when he found out brachytherapy was available in England but not in Wales after funding for the treatment was withdrawn last August.

Immediately after being diagnosed, Mr Hendrie joined the Prostate Cancer Campaign Group's battle to make brachytherapy available to Welsh men.

At the end of February, Mr Hendrie was contacted by Health Commission Wales and told that his fight had been successful.

He and 24 other Welsh patients will now be able to receive brachytherapy in England in the near future.

Mr Hendrie said: "The radical treatments that were offered to me would have involved a much longer stay in hospital or weeks of travelling back and forward to Singleton. This means I can have the least invasive treatment available. You are in hospital for two days and are normally well and can resume a full life a fortnight after the treatment."

Bracytherapy involves planting a high dose of radioactive seeds into the prostate and carries a far lower risk of causing impotence and incontinence.