NUrses will be returning to a former Menston psychiatric hospital as it reopens as a working hospital for a new television series.

High Royds hospital, in Menston, has been chosen as the venue for a new ten part drama series on Channel Four.

The series is called No Angels and will be about four young nurses working at a hospital called St Margaret's in Leeds who live, work and play together.

A custom built flat has been constructed for the nurses in the grounds of High Royds, but on screen they will be pretending to live in Headingley.

Filming is expected to take place shortly and the production will be on our screens next year.

Local people have been invited to volunteer as extras on the set.

Channel 4 Head of Drama, John Yorke said: "No Angels is a new portrayal of nurses in drama.

"Their warmth, attitude and camaraderie allows them to overcome the sometimes brutal realities of their world."

It is being produced by Tony Garnett's World Productions, the makers of Cops, This Life and Cardiac Arrest.

A spokesman for the production team said: "Exploding the myth of angels by the bedside, this is a witty and truthful expose of nursing in the modern NHS.

"Everyday the girls face life, death and dram on the wards of St Margaret's; every night they let off steam, with a dangerous appetite for uncomplicated sex and misbehaviour.

And if the drugs don't work, it's probably because the junior doctor's taken them."

The series will see Anji, played by Sunetra Sarker, and Beth, played by Jo Joyner, as the babies of the gang.

Anji may be set on an arranged marriage, and sex kitten Beth has yet to meet the rich Consultant of her dreams, but that is not going to stop them hunting down any other man they fancy in the meantime.

Single mum Lia, played by Louise Delamere, is sharp-tongued and funny. She is a great nurse but a bad mother with an out of control 12-year-old daughter.

The fourth member of the team is Kate, played by Kaye Wragg, who is the acting sister on the male-dominated medical assessment ward and keeps falling for the doctors.

Actor Derek Riddell, of Clocking Off fame, will be the girls' sexy nemesis as senior house doctor Jamie.

C4 Commissioning Editor Lucy Richer said: "This is a funny, accessible and very honest contemporary series that reinforces C4's reputation for popular, innovative drama."

Filming on location in and around Leeds, No Angels is devised by award-winning playwright Toby Whithouse and produced by Helen Gregory, of Eastenders fame.

Executive Producer is Simon Heath, who has produced Men Only, Attachments and Love Again.