Yorkshire Post Newspaper Story
By Simon Bristow

PROTESTERS fighting bed cuts at East Riding hospitals hope they are on the right track to getting their message across with the launch of their latest campaign. The Save Bridlington Hospital Campaign Action Group has printed 16,500 car stickers which it hopes will raise awareness of their campaign.

The stickers will be handed out free at a launch next Thursday after the group secured sponsorship from more than 70 businesses in the east coast town.

Campaign chairman Mick Pilling said: "Once people put these stickers in their cars they will go the length and breadth of the country and it will inform people about what is happening to health services in the rural East Riding of Yorkshire."

The stickers display the group's website address, which contains details of proposed cuts in Scarborough, Hornsea, Beverley and Driffield.

The group's main fear is that 60 beds from hospitals in those towns will be moved elsewhere by the region's primary care trusts.

Campaigners are also being urged to travel to Westminster next month for a national rally and lobby of MPs.

The rally, being organised by CHANT (Community Hospitals Acting Nationally Together), will take place on Wednesday April 18. It will be attended by campaign groups and leagues of friends from all over the country.