A candidate in the council elections has had to suspend canvassing after rupturing his Achilles tendon while delivering leaflets. Matthew Ward was out and about in Swansea's Fairwood ward when he tripped backwards off a doorstep, heard a snap and fell to the ground.
"I could not get up," he said. "I thought I had broken my ankle." Struggling on the ground, he called out to a party colleague who was delivering a leaflet to the property next door at the time.
Mr Ward's colleague, Michael Williams, who is Plaid Cymru's deputy chairman for Gower, then drove him to Morriston Hospital's emergency department. "When I first went in, it was announced there was a 15-hour wait," said Mr Ward, aged 36. "Some people had been there from six or seven o'clock the evening before. It was really full." You can read more stories about Swansea here.
