THERE are hopes that an ultrasound scanner will be up and running at Ludlow Hospital.

Ludlow Hospital League of Friends is helping to fund the equipment that is used in the diagnosis of a number of conditions.

As part of the fundraising a group of men dressed as women were around Ludlow encouraging people to part with their cash in a good cause.

In past years they have pushed a hospital bed around the town but now they are on foot but still in uniform.

They were out and about on one of the busiest days of the summer in Ludlow with the Fringe Festival in full swing.