A LOONY resident has come up with a novel way of highlighting his village's medical needs.

Lord Toby Jug is campaigning for a weekly surgery to be re-introduced for the people of Vigo.

The Monster Raving Loony Party member says residents desperately need the two-hour clinic, which was stopped in June 2004.

To persuade Meopham Medical Centre to re-start the clinic, Lord Toby is to hold his own surgeries at Vigo Village Hall.

He has even brought in his party's shadow minister for mental health Wild Willi Beckett who intends to use leeches to treat the village's ill.

The surgery was discontinued because there was not a computer available and patients' records had to be kept on old-style cards.

Lord Toby, of High View, Vigo, claims the closure has made it difficult for elderly villagers and those with children to see their doctor.

The 39-year-old said: "We will hold our own surgery in Vigo Village Hall every Tuesday morning and Friday nights when the pub chucks out.

"Anyone with spare false legs, organic wigs, leeches, Junior Disprin and bottles of 100 per cent proof rum please send them to the hall all donations will be gratefully received.

"But I do belong to a very sick party so we will obviously need a real doctor as a matter of urgency."

Lord Toby, who stood as a candidate for Michael Howard's Folkestone and Hythe seat in the general election, says he spoke to Dr Johnathan Mounty, from the medical centre, in Wrotham Road, Meopham, two weeks ago.

The Monster member claims the doctor told him the surgery would be unlikely to return unless a computer was available.

The father-of-one continued: "The surgery operated well enough before computers were invented, what's the matter with writing on patient record cards and putting it on computer after returning to the surgery?"

However, a computer has now been donated to Lord Jug's campaign and he is currently gathering names on a petition which he will present to the medical centre.

He added: "We are ready to go anytime they want, it's just a matter of installing the computer."

The centre's practice manager Angela Body said: "How can you take anybody seriously who calls himself Toby Jug?"

She refused to comment any further.