An award-winning hospital radio station that has kept West Midlands patients entertained for more than seven decades is at risk of falling silent - unless it can raise vital funds.

BHBN Radio, run entirely by volunteers since 1952, has been a lifeline for ill patients battling loneliness across major hospitals in the region.

But the station - which serves the Queen Elizabeth , Birmingham Women's, Heartlands, Good Hope, Royal Orthopaedic, Solihull and Midland Metropolitan hospitals - could be taken off air next February unless it can find the money to keep going.

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Volunteers, who broadcast from the Heritage Building at the QE, need to find £15,000 a year to continue after NHS

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