A CITY community is being urged to get inventive - by coming up with a name for a £3m state-of-the-art health centre.

Work is under way on the new centre in the grounds of Newlands Primary School, in Ullswater Road, Millbrook.

Health chiefs are scratching their heads to come up with a catchy title for the project, which will see a school nursing team, contraception and sexual health unit, children podiatry experts, dentists and GPs all under one roof. The centre, the first of its kind in the south- east, will also be the main base for Sure Start, the scheme supporting children and families.

Suggestions so far range from the obvious - Millbrook Health and Family Centre - to the historic - The Pickles Centre, named after the orchard which once stood on the site called Pickles Copse.

Bosses at Southampton Primary Care Trust want more ideas from residents.

Yvonne Dunkinson, from the PCT, said: "Some of the ideas put forward by staff so far have been really good but we want to hear what the community thinks the facility should be called."

The ambitious project has been funded by the PCT, the Outer Shirley Regeneration budget, Sure Start and the city council, and will eventually replace the Millbrook clinic.

Contact Yvonne with name suggestions on 023 8087 4167.