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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

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.

Mr Winter, 49, had a heart attack while at a motor club meeting in Colerne earlier this year.

Despite the prompt attentions of an air ambulance paramedic, Mr Winter was dead on arrival at hospital.

Car club colleague Ian Hall said: "At least the speed of the arrival of the helicopter and the prompt attention gave him a fighting chance."

He added: "We wanted to show our gratitude to the service as well as commemorate Kieran."

Mr Hall, who lives in North Wraxall, has reason himself to be grateful for Wiltshire Air Ambulance.

In 1995 his son Andrew, then 19, was airlifted to hospital following a car accident. "He is paralysed from the waist down, but I firmly believe he would not be with us if it had not been for the air ambulance," said Mr Hall.


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