By Catherine Vonledebur HEALTH REPORTER LAST week was the busiest of the year at Coventry and Warwickshire's A&E departments. University Hospital in Walsgrave and Hospital of St Cross, Rugby, usually deal with about 90 to 100 ambulance cases per day, but numbers rose to 145 on some days.

A CYCLIST has died after being in collision with a bus in Coventry. The woman was cycling along Stoney Stanton Road, near to the Gallagher retail park when the accident happened, at 2.30pm yesterday.

COVENTRY'S new University Hospital needs to identify a further pounds 10 million worth of savings before next March, it was revealed last night. Hospital chiefs say 2007/8 will be "the most challenging" in the history of the University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.

AFTER the hearing, Sandy Taylor, chief executive of the Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust, apologised to the family.

THE number of patients dying after surgery at a Coventry hospital has fallen by 22 per cent to its lowest point ever. In less than 12 months since the opening of University Hospital at Walsgrave, official statistics show it is among some of the best hospitals in the country for successful surgery.