GLASGOW health chiefs today asked a judge to throw out a grandmother's compensation action - amid claims it could end up costing the health service millions of pounds.

Elizabeth Miller, 71, contracted the superbug MRSA while recovering from a heart operation in Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

And, in what's being seen as a test case, she wants £30,000 damages.

Mrs Miller, of Kilsyth, claims she probably picked up the bug in the ward and blames staff for not washing their hands thoroughly.

But Greater Glasgow NHS Board today told judge Lady Clark at the Court of Session in Edinburgh that the claims made by Mrs Miller were not detailed enough to put blame on them.

As the legal argument began, Mrs Miller's solicitor Cameron Fyfe said hundreds of other cases would go ahead if this action succeeded.