A charity will no longer run a Cornish hospital shop for the first time in 40 years after losing a tender bid. The Women's Royal Voluntary Service (WRVS) will vacate Truro's Royal Cornwall Hospital shop in January.
Bids ranged from �46,000 to nearly �200,000, and a national chainstore is believed to have won the tender.
The WRVS shop was staffed by volunteers and led to �500,000 in profits being gifted to the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust over the last 10 years.
The local patient's forum is to investigate why the WRVS lost the contract.
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