Funding cuts march draws crowd

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Oxford to protest against NHS cuts and its funding crisis - reports the Oxford Times.

About 400 health workers, union members, pensioners and members of the public joined forces on Saturday in a bid to send a clear message to the Government.

Demonstrators, many of whom had not been on a protest march before, had been angered by the growing number of NHS redundancies across the county's hospitals.

Oxfordshire's Primary Care Trust and hospital trusts still face multi-million pound debts and a report last week revealed that up to 64% of community hospital beds could be under threat.