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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. 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 |
Woman praises air ambulance after fall from horse
2:06pm Tuesday 8th July 2008
DETERMINED Dani French says that she owes her life to the Wiltshire Air Ambulance after a near fatal fall from her beloved horse Mojito in May.
Our boy owes his life to crew
11:09am Thursday 3rd July 2008
THE mother of miracle crash survivor Mason Heal has spoken of the moment she thought he had died.
Mum backs our fight
11:07am Thursday 3rd July 2008
MOTHER Angela Pope is supporting the Gazette's campaign to save the Wiltshire Air Ambulance to whom she says she owes her baby's life.
Boy's amazing recovery
11:45am Thursday 26th June 2008
BRAVE seven-year-old schoolboy Mason Heal has stunned doctors by recovering from a near fatal car crash in May.
Control of appeal funds under review
11:37am Thursday 26th June 2008
THE Great Western Ambulance Service (GWAS) which controls the funds of the Wiltshire Air Ambulance Appeal said this week it was considering relinquishing the trusteeship of the appeal.
Real ale fans raise cash and signatures
12:36pm Thursday 19th June 2008
THE Gazette's petition to save Wiltshire Air Ambulance was signed by people attending a beer festival at the Rose and Crown pub in Worton.
Asthma victim backs chopper night flights
12:28pm Thursday 19th June 2008
JACKIE Rycroft, who was flown by the Wiltshire Air Ambulance to hospital after she suffered a serious asthma attack, says it is vital that it continues to fly at night.
Crash survivor donates to air ambulance
12:56pm Friday 13th June 2008
A Devizes garage owner who was almost killed in a motorcycle race crash last year is donating ten per cent of his earnings from car accident repairs to support the medical teams that saved him.
Widow signs up to save air ambulance
11:20am Thursday 12th June 2008
WIDOW Gillian Fox is supporting the Gazette's campaign to save the air ambulance that went to her husband's aid after he suffered a suspected heart attack.
White Horse walkers’ grand result for Air Ambulance
10:04am Thursday 12th June 2008
A team from Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service raised over £1,000 for the county's Air Ambulance at the weekend by tackling the White Horse Challenge.
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