Thursday 2 June 2022 01:10 AM Firebombing threat to Welsh holiday homes amid fury over spiralling house ... trends now
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Second home owners in rural Wales could be targeted by a new firebombing campaign amid anger about the soaring cost of housing, it has been claimed.
Such attacks were carried out in the 1970s and 1980s by extremists in the Welsh nationalist movement Meibion Glyndwr hoping to force out English owners.
Now North Wales councillor Craig ab Iago has warned he has heard 'even middle class and comfortably off people talking about this being an answer'.
House prices are rapidly rising in rural and coastal areas of Wales, where picturesque locations such as Morfa Nefyn, Gwynedd (pictured) are becoming increasingly popular
Meibion Glyndwr was responsible for setting fire to holiday homes with English owners in the 1970s and 1980s
A trend for rising house prices has been worsened in rural and coastal areas of Wales by demand for holiday homes.
But Mr ab Iago, a
