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Health chiefs have been forced toclosea10-bed ward atthe recently-opened Clitheroe Community Hospital dueto faulty flooring.
Less, than three months after Clitheroe’s new £7.4m. 32sbed hospital officially
• opened its doors to patients, it has had to close the majority
. of RibblesdaleWardafterstaff discovered that parts of the floor had disbonded, causing the vinyl to bubble.
However, officials at East ■ Lancashire Hospitals NHS
' Trust have stressed that its. business as usual and that no patients have been turned away as a result. Mr Martin Morgan, direc
tor of estates and facilities for ELHT, said the situation with
the floorwas clearly unaccept able and it posed a trip hazard to patients, staff and visitors. “The construction compa ny who built thehospital and
J the Trust have requested an independentinvestigation by a specialist contractor who has now inspected the floor ing across the whole hospital
andaprogrammeofremedial . work to correct the problem and make the flooring safe is due to begin. “Currently 10 beds are out
of use on Ribblesdale Ward while this work is carried out with the priority to re-open the six-bedded bay as soon as possible. The hospital con- ' tinues to accept patients as
- normal and we have not had to turn any admissions away. “This has had no impact-
on the care delivered to the patientsonthewardandwith- in the outpatient clinics”. . This is the second time in two months the multi-million
pound health facility has been hit by problems. Last month we reported,
that a chronic shortage of parking was causing patients and relatives searching for a parkingbayto“abandon”vehi- clesonChatburnRoadoutside
; the hospital.
Saturday’s 87th Chipping Agricultural and Hortictural Show attracted up to 5,000 people and was described as ‘a really great day’ by show chairman William Pye. Aselection of pictures and the main story appearonpages10and11,withthefu!lshowresultsonpages19and22.
Teen gave back stolen
generator A Clitheroe teenager who accepted a stolen genera tor from another man re turned it to the rightful owner when he found out he knew her. Blackburn magistrates
heard Kyle Stuart Turner told the victim: “If I had
known it wasyours I would
■ have got it back sooner.” " Turner, of The Sidings,
Castle View, Clitheroe, pleaded guilty to handling a stolen compressor. He
was fined£i8oand ordered to pay £20 costs. A charge
•of burglary of a shed in Tower Hill, Clitheroe, and theft of the compressor, was withdrawn. Alex Mann (prosecut
ing) said Turner was seen with the compressor, in the early hours. After the owner had reported the burglary to police Turner
approached her and said he hadn’t stolen it, but knew where it was. Damian Pickup.(de
fending) said Turner had • always denied involvement in the burglary: “Another man gave him the com- pressor and he accepts he was suspicious. A few hours later, when he real ised who it belonged to, he
. did the right thing and re- turnedit.”
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