By Ben Glaze There are just seven days left to save local hospitals in South Wales, Plaid Cymru claimed today.

By Gareth Morgan The Tories would not scrap Labour's 26-week waiting-time target for hospital treatment if it won power after the election, the party said yesterday.

By TOM BODDEN Welsh Affairs Correspondent THE public lost faith in the NHS shake-up in Wales because it was not properly consulted about threats to popular hospitals, Plaid Cymru claimed yesterday.

Investment in ambulances has to be accompanied by reform of working practices in the ambulance service, First Minister Rhodri Morgan said yesterday. In the chamber he was asked if he thought his Government's draft budget, published yesterday, contained enough money for the service.