WHO LOVES YA, BABY?

This week has seen a political row, stirred up by the Conservatives, who claim Labour is working to run down smaller maternity hospital units. The Tories say big is not necessarily best.
This Blog is strictly non-political, but it set me thinking about the old Glanford Hospital, where so many current 40-plus Brigg residents will have been born.
Now it's the hospital trust's Health Place office block - but in decades past it was a functioning hospitals, with delivering babies high on the agenda.
In the 1980s the government of the day (I think it was Tory) decided to streamline the health service and brought in some top managers from outside the 'industry'.
One of those assigned to the Scunthorpe area was a high-ranking army officer who accepted a National Union of Journalists' branch offer to come along and outline his thoughts.
I remember asking him how it was an improvement that Brigg women had to go over to Scunthorpe to give birth, when, for decades, they had been able to do so in their own town.
Enough said!