Campaigners are stepping up their bid to secure the future of Banbury's Horton Hospital.
Members of the Keep The Horton action group have launched a publicity drive to prevent the hospital being downgraded from a general hospital status to little more than a community hospital.
The group's first move is to invite Oxfordshire's health bosses to a question and answer session at a meeting of Cherwell District Council's scrutiny committee.
A motion put forward by action group chairman Cllr George Parish has been added to the agenda. It asks the council to invite Sir William Stubbs, chairman of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, and Trevor Campbell Davies, the trust's chief executive, to attend an appropriate committee meeting to explain their commitment to The Horton.
In another move, Banbury MP Tony Baldry has written to the Royal College of Paediatrics in an attempt to find out if the hospital is accredited as a training unit for junior doctors.
Burglars broke into the hospital's charity shop
and stole £250 over the weekend of January 17-18. Anyone with information about the burglary is asked to contact Pc Lynda Burchett on 08458 505505 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111. I
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