IS THIS Mr SAXBY'S PARTING SHOT

News reaches me today, that the gynaecology ward is to close at Darlington Memorial Hospital.

Staff have been told to look for other jobs.

All treatments will be done on "general wards", another nail in the health care coffin of Darlington residents.

Once we have lost these specialists, we will not get them back.

It has been said by ourselves in the press that there is a risk of losing DMH, ward by ward, floor by floor until it is no longer viable.

We see this closure as proof positive of above statement, what next A&E.

Will our ever absent MP now speak up for Darlington or along with this New Labour run council will the silence be deafening.