Shropshire is getting fatter and fatter and people need more operations on the NHS to cope, a leading consultant said today.

Bosses at Shropshire’s orthopaedic hospital say they have reached agreement with staff on a shake-up of therapy services.

Bosses at Shropshire’s orthopaedic hospital said today they were not planning to make any compulsory redundancies as part of a shake-up of therapy services.

Oswestry orthopaedic hospital’s operating theatres will not become ‘production lines’ as staff strive to treat more patients as day cases, bosses have been reassured.

Oswestry Orthopaedic Hospital has won the right to become a Foundation Trust helping to secure jobs and improve services.

A black eye sported by Shropshire MP Owen Paterson was a keen topic of conversation as he greeted Princess Alexandra on her visit to the county today.

Care policies at Oswestry’s Orthopaedic Hospital have been revised after staff X-rayed the wrong patient, bosses have revealed.

One of Oswestry’s orthopaedic hospital’s best-known characters has returned home after recovering from a broken toe.

Shropshire hospitals have defended a decision not to pay bank holiday rates to staff who work on the royal wedding day after a union “named and shamed” NHS trusts refusing extra cash.