Save Our Air Ambulance
The Gazette has launched a campaign to save Wiltshire's air ambulance. The Great Western Ambulance Service Trust wants to move the county's vital helicopter service from its base in Devizes to Filton, near Bristol and share it with Avon.
The Gazette believes this will threaten the lives of people in Wiltshire, who pay for the running of the air ambulance through fundraising. At present the air ambulance can reach any part of the county in eight minutes. Who knows what service we will get if it moves to Bristol?
The air ambulance has saved countless lives over the past decade. Now it needs your help... Join our fight by downloading the petition and poster. Please get as many of your friends, family and work colleagues to sign it.
Click here to send us your stories about how the air ambulance has helped you or your family.
You can also write with your objections to GWAS' plans at: Tim Lynch, Chief Executive, GWAST, Jenner House, Langley Park Estate, Chippenham, SN15 1GG.
You can sign our petitions at the Gazette's offices in Market Place, Devizes, Market Place, Chippenham, Kingsbury Street, Marlborough and 100 Victoria Road, Swindon.
The petition is also available at the following outlets:
Nettleton Post Office
Costcutters, Chippenham
FK Davis & Sons, Market Lavington
E F Duck & Sons, Devizes
Costcutters, Marlborough
Midway Stores, Ramsbury
Sherston Post Office
Abbey News, Malmesbury
Swindon Street Seller
Baileys News, Wootton Bassett
Mike Wood Tryes, Devizes
Alternatively click here to download a copy of the petition.
By clicking here you can download a copy of our Save Our Air Ambulance poster, to show your support.
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| Car club remember chairman | | 1:23pm Thursday 7th August 2008 | | Members of the Bristol Pegasus Motor Club presented a cheque for nearly £3,000 to Wiltshire Air Ambulance Appeal last week in memory of their chairman, Kieran Winter. |
 | I can’t believe it’s going | | 1:19pm Thu 7 Aug 08 | | Samuel Sherwood, six, is recovering at his home this week after a bout of fitting led to his being airlifted to hospital. |
 | Riders raise £750 | | 11:58am Thu 7 Aug 08 | | Police officer Heather Barham has handed over a cheque for more than £750 to Wiltshire Air Ambulance following a Horsewatch fete. |
 | Wrangling set to continue | | 11:53am Thu 7 Aug 08 | | Attempts by bosses at the Great Western Ambulance Service to offer assurances about the future of the Wiltshire Air Ambulance has only succeeded in creating more confusion. |
 | Appeal gauntlet is thrown down | | 12:17pm Thu 31 Jul 08 | | A group of eminent people from Wiltshire is calling on the Great Western Ambulance Service to relinquish control of the Wiltshire Air Ambulance Appeal. |
 | Our boy owes his life to crew | | 11:09am Thu 3 Jul 08 | | THE mother of miracle crash survivor Mason Heal has spoken of the moment she thought he had died. |
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