An elderly patient received third degree burns after lying for hours on hot pipes in a hospital just days before his death, an inquest heard today.

A MAN who went missing from his hospital bed was found four hours later, badly burned, under the hot pipes in a service room of the building.

With the last three weeks dominated by saturation coverage of the race for Westminster, people could be forgiven for forgetting that another election is taking place.

The Women’s Coalition is to field eight candidates in the local government elections, the party revealed today.