Published: 28/03/2002, Volume II2, No. 5798 Page 5

Solihull councillor Jim Ryan joins local hospital campaigners from around the country - including those from Kent and Canterbury, with purple balloons - to lobby the Department of Health and Downing Street.Each campaign group presented letters expressing their concerns over hospital downgrading to the DoH at Richmond House, and to prime minister Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street across the road.Lobbyists were joined by MPs from the allparty parliamentary local hospitals group.