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Savernake hospital delegation heads to London today
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| Hospital campaigners boarded a bus this morning to support Val Compton. |
MAYOR of Marlborough Peggy Dow headed a delegation from the town going to the Appeal Court in London today to show support for hospital campaigner Val Compton.
Mrs Compton and her barrister Guy Opperman, have to appear before the Court of Appeal in a hearing to clear the way for the judicial review in July of the decision to close the Day Hospital and the Minor Injuries Unit at Savernake Hospital.
Hundreds of pledges have been pouring in offering cash sums towards the £20,000 of the PCT's legal costs that a judge has ruled Mrs Compton stands liable to pay should she lose the fight.
Many of the promises have come from parents of pupils at St Katharine's School, Savernake.
Headteacher Donni Blackwell has written letters to the 70 families at the school asking them to support the pledge campaign.
"Being a small school we have always relied upon the Minor Injuries Unit being just down the road at Savernake Hospital," said Mrs Blackwell.
"If we had an issue at the school it was there but now we would have to whizz a child off to Swindon."
| For full story and appeal decision check tomorrow's Gazette. | |
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Val Compton and Coun Dow were accompanied by up to ten other town councillors as well as the Mayor of Hungerford, Coun Peter Harries, as the coachload of supporters travels to the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand on Wednesday.
Coun Dow said: "It is only right that I should be there as Marlborough's leading citizen to show the judge that the town is right behind Mrs Compton.
"I know we can only sit in the court and will not be allowed to say anything but we can show the court that the whole of not just Marlborough but the entire district including Pewsey and Hungerford is behind this fight."
Mrs Compton said:
"I have received the kind of support I knew I could expect not only from Marlborough but from much farther afield as well.
"I am getting phone calls from people in Devizes and Calne who say they prefer to go the Savernake MIU because its closer to get to."
10:09am Wednesday 21st May 2008
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