Article: Air ambulance is safe with us ; Wiltshire's Air Ambulance will continue in its present form until at least the end of 2010, and could well be saved in the longer term.

Wiltshire's Air Ambulance will continue in its present form until at least the end of 2010, and could well be saved in the longer term.

That was the pledge by ambulance chiefs yesterday, who dismissed fears the service was "under threat".

Bosses at Great Western Ambulance Service (GWAS) said that although they could not guarantee exactly in what form the air ambulance would operate around Wiltshire, they promised that there would always be a provision over the county.

And yesterday, GWAS said it wanted to sign an extension to the contract with Wiltshire police to share the force's helicopter for another two years from when the present deal runs out in December this year.

That represents an ...

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