GREAT Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell is progressing "really well" in hospital after heart surgery, according to his wife.
Linda McDougall said her 78-year-old husband was sitting up and chatting in a general ward in Kings' College Hospital, London.
He was moved out of the teaching hospital's high dependency unit last night. It follows surgery after the MP fell and banged his head outside the House of Commons on June 3.
Linda said: "He is keen to get back to work in Grimsby and help sort out the difficulties at the hospital there."
"He is progressing really well. He will have to do about an hour's walk every day for the first two months.
