Op is ruff justice for sock swallowing dog
While most dogs are happiest tucking into steak, chicken or treats, Bailey the labrador's favourite meal is far from the norm - socks.
While most dogs are happiest tucking into steak, chicken or treats, Bailey the labrador's favourite meal is far from the norm - socks.
Record signing Kevin Doyle is in danger of missing Wolves' Premier League return next month after having a hernia operation, writes MARTIN SWAIN. Record signing Kevin Doyle is in danger of missing Wolves' Premier League return next month after having a hernia operation, writes MARTIN SWAIN. The £6.5m arrival from Reading was yesterday flown out to Munich for the surgery by a hernia specialist and is expected to be ruled out for at least two weeks. But with Doyle, 25, already behind on his pre-season preparations because of the injury, the August 15 curtain-raiser against West Ham is likely to come too soon for him. Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star
Former Speaker of the House of Commons and Black Country MP Baroness Boothroyd was undergoing open heart surgery today.
A 15-year-old Shropshire schoolgirl has died following an operation to remove her appendix. Tributes have now been paid to Danielle Harris, of Coneybury View, Broseley. A 15-year-old Shropshire schoolgirl has died following an operation to remove her appendix. Tributes have now been paid to Danielle Harris, of Coneybury View, Broseley. Danielle, a Year 10 pupil at Thomas Telford School, died on May 29. Letters have now been sent out to all parents from the school, informing them of the "tragic" loss. The letter said students had received counselling. Sir Kevin Satchwell, headmaster, also extended his sympathies to the family. Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star.
A former Shropshire doctor cleared of involvement in the London and Glasgow car bomb plot has been at the centre of a three-day inquest on a county man. [caption id="attachment_66028" align="alignright" width="243" caption="Dr Mohammed Asha arrives for an inquest at the Park Inn, Telford. Picture by Bob Greaves"][/caption] A former Shropshire doctor cleared of involvement in the London and Glasgow car bomb plot has been at the centre of a three-day inquest on a county man. Junior doctor Mohammed Asha was part of a three-person team which failed to realise Leslie Needle was bleeding to death after an operation. The three doctors – including anaesthetist Dr Christy Davis and registrar Dr Awais Shuja – all believed critically ill Mr Needle, of Springfield, Nordley, near Bridgnorth, was dehydrated. His internal haemorrhaging went untreated. Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star
A dog so badly neglected she resembled a pile of rags when she was found abandoned in a sack has had a setback in her recovery from surgery.
A Willenhall holidaymaker feared dead after being mown down by a hit-and-run driver in Spain has gone through a successful operation to have part of her skull replaced.
A Shropshire teenager died just 30 minutes before she was due to receive a potentially life-saving bone marrow transplant from her sister. A Shropshire teenager died just 30 minutes before she was due to receive a potentially life-saving bone marrow transplant from her sister. Kimberley Jones, 17, had been battling leukaemia for months and her family was desperately hoping bone marrow would save her life. Her sister Amanda, 15, travelled to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham on Monday and donated the bone marrow. Doctors were hoping to carry out the transplant at noon on Tuesday but Kimberley died at 11.30am that day. Her mother Michelle Matthews, of College Road, Oswestry, said: "They took her down to intensive care at 8am on Tuesday but she was just too ill to go on. It came down to a matter of hours at the end but there was nothing they could do." Kimberley's funeral will be held on March 10 at 2pm at Holy Trinity Church. Mourners are asked to wear Liverpool colours as Kimberley was a big fan of the club. Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star
A mother-of-one has become the first person to undergo a pioneering operation to have a pacemaker fitted in her stomach at Dudley's Russells Hall Hospital.
A puppy went in to have an operation on one broken leg and came out unable to use two.
A pensioner who suffered serious knife injuries after an attacker slashed him and his wife in their Wolverhampton home was undergoing more surgery today.
One of the most experienced surgeons in the UK is expected to be involved in talks today over whether to separate conjoined twin girls born to a Shropshire teenager.
Doctors will hold a crunch meeting tomorrow to decide whether to operate this week on the conjoined twin girls born to a Shropshire teenager. Doctors will hold a crunch meeting tomorrow to decide whether to operate this week on the conjoined twin girls born to a Shropshire teenager. Faith and Hope Williams were delivered by Caesarean section on Wednesday and are now being cared for at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London. Their mother Laura Williams, of Harlescott, Shrewsbury, has made medical history by becoming the world's youngest mother of conjoined twins at just 18. She said the moment she first saw the children, who were born at University Hospital, London, was "brilliant" and "amazing". Doctors at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital had warned Mrs Williams and her husband Aled that the twins might not survive after a 12-week scan revealed that they were joined. But the couple, who live with Laura's mother Wendy Rackham, refused to have a termination. Mrs Williams said: "They have all their own limbs and their own hearts." Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star
The family of Wednesbury steel worker who died after an operation at Walsall Manor Hospital have said they will sue over his treatment.
Luckless Wolves keeper Matt Murray is playing a waiting game as he awaits the green light to return to training – as George Elokobi prepared to go under the knife.