Accident survivors across the county have added their voice to the Gazette's fight to save Wiltshire's air ambulance.

Louise Neale, 30, of South Place, Corsham, nearly died after a horse kicked her in the head fracturing her skull.

The near fatal incident, which happened eight years ago when she was working as a groom in Kington St Michael, has left Miss Neale partially paralysed down her right side.

She said: "If the air ambulance did not take me straight to hospital I would have died - I owe them my life.

"If the air ambulance had not been in operation I would have died because of the amount of time it would have taken an ambulance to drive to the location.

"I am disgusted with the news that they might have to relocate to Bristol and think it would be devastating for the people in Wiltshire."

Each year she organises different events to raise money for the service. This year she has already planned a Halloween ball.

Olly Tuckwell only survived the injuries he sustained in a road accident due to the swift response of the Wiltshire Air Ambulance.

Mr Tuckwell, 25, received extensive life threatening injuries including a broken pelvis and skull and a brain injury in the crash in August 2006 on the A342 at Lydeway, near Devizes.

Mr Tuckwell, who has since moved from Devizes to Kent, said: "I owe the air ambulance my life - if I didn't get their help as quickly as I did I wouldn't be here or, at best, I would be in a wheelchair and with serious brain problems."

Mum-of-three Sandi King says the air ambulance saved her son Craig after he was knocked from his bike by a car at the age of 14.

The accident happened six years ago in Great Somerford. It was the second time Mrs King had reason to be thankful for the air ambulance as one year earlier her husband was involved in an oil explosion in Minety and almost lost his legs.

Mrs King, 44, of Meadow Lane, Little Somerford, said: "When Craig was hit by the car it was terrifying. The air ambulance saved his life. If we had to wait for an ambulance he might have died or been brain damaged."

Mr and Mrs King, who organise Calne Country Music Festival, decided to donate the profits to Wiltshire Air Ambulance in a bid to keep the helicopter in Wiltshire.