Now as you may have heard, I’ve recently spent some time in various hospitals.

Whilst I was in one of the wards in Southend, a patient there celebrated his birthday and kindly provided us all with a delicious piece of BLACK FOREST GATEAU.

It was great, but not apparently as edifying as the “thank you” present provided for nurses at Warrington Hospital in Cheshire by the relative of a patient who’d recently been treated there.

Nurses who tucked into the red velvet sponge were later found to be “off their faces” as the man was unaware that the cake, he’d purloined from his grandson’s 18th birthday, had been generously enriched with cannabis.

Some staff members reportedly felt relaxed after partaking of the snack whilst 3 or 4 of the nurses were apparently totally “out of it”.

Although hospital bosses denied that anyone had actually eaten the cake, police were called, tested the cake and confirmed the presence of the extra ingredient.

The elderly donor of the cake was questioned by police and shocked to discover the disruption his gift had caused to the efficient running of the hospital.

Officers have now spoken to all the parties involved and given some strong words of advice.

The cake has since been destroyed – well they would say that wouldn’t they?

I was joined in the second hour of today’s programme by Margaret Mills who popped by to tell us about a well known house in Thaxted, apparently haunted by a King Charles spaniel.

Listen again here to what Margaret told me today: –

See you again next week,
Scott