ANGRY patients left their sick-beds in an amazing protest over student nurses losing their jobs.

The demonstration was sparked after students at Blackburn Infirmary who had finished their three-year training were told there were no posts for them.

Patients were so annoyed that seven nurses were to go that they held a banner-waving protest at the hospital entrance.

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