EDGE Hill university's new pounds 14m Teaching and Learning Faculty of Health building in Ormskirk has been shortlisted for a Times Higher Education award for sustainable development. (c) 2008 Liverpool Echo. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

EDGE Hill university will host a conference looking at the consequences of drinking and drug use during pregnancy. The event, at Ormskirk, in conjunction with foetal alcohol syndrome group FASAwareUK, is on from 8.45am to 4.30pm on Monday, September 8. (c) 2008 Liverpool Echo.

FROM today patients at Southport and Ormskirk hospitals can choose when to have their X-rays. Under a new system patients can ring the hospital and sort out a time that is most convenient. Barium meals, ultrasounds and bone density tests will be booked under the same system.

A TERMINALLY-ILL Mer-seyside businessman who spent pounds 70,000 to aid his fight against cancer has died.

SOUTHPORT and Ormskirk hospitals got the worst score in the area - although not the worst in the north west. Its "fair" score for care is worse than last year and its "weak" money management has stayed the same.