GRANDMOTHER Levina Brown has won her battle to get her dementia victim husband out of a hospital ward.

The 68-year-old, who lost two children in tragic circumstances, had spent almost two months trying to secure a nursing home place for 76-year-old Mark.

After weeks of pressing Lancashire County Council for action, a place was finally found for him in a Rossendale nursing home after the Lancashire Telegraph ran a story about the family’s plight.

Mrs Brown said: “The whole family are delighted. I can only thank the Lancashire Telegraph for its help.”

At the beginning of last month he was taken into the Royal Blackburn Hospital after the former mental health nurse could no longer care for him at their Waterfoot home.

However Lancashire County Council social services proved unable to find a nursing home in Rossendale for him.

In desperation Mrs Brown turned to the Lancashire Telegraph for help and a place was found five days later.

She lost son Mark, 29, to septicaemia in 2002, winning compensation for his treatment at Hope Hospital in Salford four years later, and her daughter Tracey at 39 to swine flu six years ago.

Last Monday Mrs Brown, who feared her husband was deteriorating in the hospitals ward C5, and her daughter Julie Rawes had a crisis meeting county social services and hospital staff.

She told them that unless a solution was found she would take her husband of 46 years home and care for him herself, with or without a package of support.

On Wednesday she was finally told that a solution had been found and he would be placed in Haslingden’s Turfcote Care and Nursing Home with the county council finding the £300 extra needed to top up his pensions to pay for it.

She said: “I am delighted.

“At last a solution has been found which means Mark will be in a nursing home close enough to our home for I, my daughter and his four grandchildren to visit him.

“I can only thank the Lancashire Telegraph for its help.

“They were talking about placing him in Preston, Manchester or Burnley which was just too far for me to drive.”