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Ambulance service responds to 700 calls in six hours.(News)

Byline: BY VICKY ANDERSON Daily Post Staff

THE region's ambulance service has reported one of its busiest New Year's Eve nights ever, with more than 700 callouts.

Across Cheshire and Merseyside, emergency calls for the entire 24-hour period of December 31 totalled 1,045, according to the North West Ambulance Service.

But the busiest period fell between 11pm on New Year's Eve and 5am on January 1, where, during this peak time, the number of emergency 999 calls soared to 712.

A large number of incidents attended were alcohol-related accidents and injuries, but there were also call-outs to a shooting and a number of car accidents.

In the early hours of New ...

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