A garden has been created for parents whose children are in a hospital's special care unit.

The sensory garden has been opened outside the neo-natal unit at the James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough, to offer respite to parents and staff.

Margaret McGloin, the hospital's assistant director of facilities and planning, said: "Parents spend a lot of time with their babies and we thought it would be a good idea to landscape the court yard area to make it a nice, calming and relaxing environment."

The work was carried out with Nature's World, in Middlesbrough.