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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

St Ives residents raise £1m to save community hospital closed by NHS

St Ives
Residents had feared the hospital building would be sold and turned into apartments due to the high demand for holiday lets in St Ives. Photograph: Jason Batterham/Alamy


Residents of a Cornish harbour town have raised £1m to save their beloved community hospital three years after it was closed by the NHS, raising fears it would be turned into holiday flats.

The former Edward Hain Memorial hospital in St Ives, which was founded more than a century ago by a local shipping family, is to be turned into a new hub for health and wellness.

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