Around twenty people from Stroud headed to London for a protest on NHS funding and privatisation at the weekend.

They took a coach organised by campaign group Stroud Against the Cuts on Saturday, June 30, joining organisers in saying the Government's recently announced funding boost was "simply not good enough".

Alongside those making the trip to the capital, fourteen others gathered to show their support at Lansdown Gallery, which was displaying an exhibition on how the NHS is funded.

In response to the march, a Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: "As part of our long-term plan for the NHS we will increase funding by an average 3.4% per year - meaning that by 2023/24 it will receive £20.5 billion a year more than it currently does."

Stroud Against the Cuts’s coach to the demonstration came as the group prepares to celebrate seventy years of the NHS with a party and picnic in town on Saturday, July 7 .

Running from morning to the afternoon in Bank Gardens and Lansdown Hall, the group are putting on stalls, talks and music.

They originally tried to get funding for the celebration from Stroud Town Council, but their application was turned down on the grounds the event risked being too political.

Instead, they resorted to online donations via a crowdfunding campaign.