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Claire Barre & Patrick Edrich & Peter Diamond

Mum rushes to A&E with ill son, six, to find doors locked for the night

A worried mum has warned night-time closures at a children’s A&E could cost lives after she rushed her son there only to find the doors locked shut.

Hayley Thomas and her husband Gary said “it’s not right” the department closes at night after they rushed to the hospital with their six-year-old son who was having breathing difficulties.

Mrs Thomas, 41, said the family woke at around 11.45pm on April 27 to the hear their son Buddy thrashing around and struggling to breathe.

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