More than 200 people in Abingdon heard their MP tell them to "fight, fight and fight again" to save their community hospital.

Dr Evan Harris, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, was the main speaker last night at a packed public meeting in the town's Guildhall.

Under changes proposed by the primary health care trust, Abingdon hospital faces being downgraded to a day care unit and could be sold off as a private nursing home.