JOHN Hutton, minister for health and MP forBarrow in Furness, visited Morecambe on Monday to officially launch a £3.3million programme programme of redevelopment at the resort's primarycare resource centre.

The overhaul will involve the demolitionof the Queen Victoria Hospital and adjacent Victoria House, and theconversion of the first floor of Morecambe health centre.

Inaddition a purpose-built two-storey facility will be built to house arange of health-care services on onesite.