Hospital radio facing axe in funding crisis

SERVICE RUN BY VOLUNTEERS FOR 73 YEARS

- HARRY LEACH News Reporter

AN award-winning hospital radio station that has kept West Midlands patients entertained for more than seven decades is at risk of falling silent - unless it can raise vital funds.

BHBN Radio, run entirely by volunteers since 1952, has been a lifeline for ill patients battling loneliness across major hospitals in the region.

But the station which serves the Queen Elizabeth, Birmingham Women's, Heartlands, Good Hope, Royal Orthopaedic, Solihull and Midland Metropolitan hospitals could be taken off air next February unless it can find the money to keep going.