A MEMORIAL service will be held next month to commemorate the life of a nurse.

Sheila Ransom was a staff nurse at Darlington Memorial Hospital until her death from cancer on May 20.

The 61-year-old, who lived in Darlington, began her nurse training in 1959. She went on to work at Hundens Lane hospital and then transferred when the Memorial hospital was built.

Friends, colleagues and relatives are invited to attend the service in her memory in the chapel at the hospital on August 5, at 1pm.