245 children's operations have been cancelled at hospitals locally last year, many due to a shortage of staff and beds, shocking figures uncovered by the Liberal Democrats have revealed.
The Liberal Democrats have called for a return to proper local health services, after new figures revealed a fall in the number of GPs in West Leicestershire, the area around Hinckley, while patient numbers rise.
The analysis also predicts that hundreds of businesses could close across the East Midlands.
A Hinckley councillor spoke at a national party conference to highlight the lack of access to NHS dentistry locally and the knock on effect on peoples health.
Responding to the Spring Budget today, Hinckley and Bosworth Lib Dems have condemned the Government's plans to increase energy bills as "so out of touch they might as well be on a different planet."
A Leicestershire County Councillor made a final appeal today to keep a Leicestershire bus service going. The 159 Hinckley to Coalville bus service was ended on February the 25th after the County Council ceased to subsidise the service.
