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Headline: Matthew Rhys saves pub in father's Welsh hometown
Caption: The Americans star backed a campaign to save the Glan yr Afon, also known as the Riverside, in Pennal, Gwynedd as his father was from the area and he has happy memories of going to the pub. Rhys, who is from Cardiff, helped with the pub's official re-opening on Saturday following a $578,000 (£450,000) campaign by locals for community ownership. Without the campaign, the pub faced being left empty or demolished. "A number of my halcyon days as a youth were spent at the Riverside," he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.
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