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Shelagh Fogarty: 29/03/2013

29/03/2013

BBC Radio 5 Live - Shelagh Fogarty, 29/03/2013

A child heart surgery unit in Leeds is suspended.

A child heart surgery unit in Leeds is suspended after suggestions the death rate there is twice the national average.

The medical director of the NHS has defended the suspension of child heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary while a safety review is carried out. Sir Bruce Keogh says the trust had no choice. It comes just 24 hours after a High Court ruling kept the unit open.

There are tributes to the actor Richard Griffiths who has died. He played Uncle Monty in the cult classic 'Withnail and I' and Harry Potter's uncle in the films of JK Rowling's novels.

A cold caller tells how he helped get an ambulance to an 84-year-old lady who had a stroke as he was about to try and sell her renewable energy products.

And the toy and model railway maker Hornby says its bringing the manufacture of some of its world famous Airfix kits back to the UK.

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