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Article: Cash plea to help second air ambulance take off
- Article from:
- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- June 17, 2002
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THE North-East is in line for a second air ambulance - but
campaigners need to raise more than 1m if the life-saver is to be
based here permanently.
On July 8, the Great North Air Ambulance (GNAA) charity will
launch a month-long trial that will see a new medical helicopter
based at Teesside Airport at a cost of 70,000.
GNAA hopes it will prove so valuable to the community that people
will dig deep into their pockets in order to raise enough money to
keep the air ambulance at Teesside permanently.
The charity, which is based in Darlington, already has one
helicopter, a Twin Squirrel, in Blyth, Northumberland.