Fight the closure of baby heart units in Southern England

I'm going to go off half-cocked a little because I am not in possession of all the facts behind this seemingly insane idea to close down Southampton General Hospital's Baby Heart Unit.
See this link to Daily Echo story here for more.
As far as I am aware Southampton General is one of three baby heart units under review, one of the others is the Royal Brompton in London.
The official consultation period is underway and a decision is due at the end of the month and one of the units is going to close.
This is absolute madness in  my opinion. How can this government consider closing any baby heart unit, which save so many lives on a routine basis, in order to skim a little off the budget and make this bunch of asset strippers look like they're doing a good job with the economy.
A very long time ago in March 1975, I was born in the New Forest town of Lyndhurst, not very far from Southampton. Unluckily for me and family I was born with two small holes in my heart and an abnormal arotic valve, making life really quite difficult for me at the time.
Luckily for us the Southampton General Baby Heart unit was on our doorstep and thanks to the excellent work of that team of surgeons, doctors and nurses, I was operated on a year later and both holes were filled in, which is not too melodramatic to say gave me a lease of life I may not have been privileged enough to enjoy if the condition had gone undetected.
The valve was replaced, as planned, much later in 2007, by a team under the expert leadership of Marcus Haw, who is leading the campaign to keep the unit open.
I owe my life to that hospital, as well as a unfortunate lifetime allegiance to Southampton Football Club.
It makes no sense to me at all to close down any one of the units under review. If Southampton loses theirs parents will have to travel to London or even Bristol for treatment. As excellent as Bristol now is, it's not exactly down the road if you live in Southampton or further afield.
I don't understand why this proposal is even on the table and shows this government to be utterly out of touch with the reality of lives for many people in this country. What if a family with a sick child doesn't have a car, can't afford the travel, or the overnight accommodation that could be necessary. It already costs a fortune to park in a hospital, add to that a round trip of a couple of hundred miles in fuel alone and it becomes prohibitive.
It's simply all kinds of wrong and I hope there is enough pressure put on government to change this ludicrous and damaging kind of policy.

My vision for a fully-integrated, interactive soap opera

I have a dream, and it's a bit silly really, but why don't soap characters move around the soaps, it would be ace.
In real life people move around the country, indeed the world, so why not in the soaps?
Wouldn't it be great if Kevin Webster decided he'd had enough of life on the Street and headed down South for a new life and ended up working for Phil Mitchell in the Arches. Similarly, what if Alfie Moon turned up at the Rovers to get a couple of shifts while him and Kat looked for a house in Manchester, or nearby Cheshire like the rest of the BBC at the moment.
Even better if one of ridiculously good looking Aussies in Neighbours goes travelling in the UK on a gap year and ends up behind the bar in E20. Why aren't there any Aussies working in pubs in Eastenders by the way?
You could get people to vote on where characters go next, like John off of Corrie who's on the run with the baby, we could vote on whether he heads to Emerdale to work on a farm under another assumed name, or over to Chester to join the rest of misfits in Hollyoaks.
Maybe he could be found contemplating jumping off the Clifton Suspension Bridge on Casualty, then sent to see a specialist in Holby City.
This surely must be the way forward for entertainment in the 21st century. A bit like what Marx said about all businesses eventually becoming one big corporation under the capitalist model, all the soap operas of the world should merge into one big show, called The Story Of Life, or something similar...............
.................It's amazing the shite you think about while avoiding going out for a run.