BREAKING NEWS: PETITION NUMBER ANNOUNCED

Wrekin MP, Mark Pritchard - who will present his Parliamentary Petition against the downgrading of health services at the Princess Royal Hospital to Parliament this week - has confirmed that his final Petition Tally stands at 16,303.

The MP, who will meet Health Secretary Andy Burnham MP, later this month to “make the case for retaining key services in Telford” said that his years of “warning” about possible cuts to services had now been “fully justified”.