Article: Festival ready to celebrate best of Yorkshire

Article: Sunshine and smiles for Yorkshire Day
Yorkshire Post;  August 2, 2008 ;     533 words ......that the first- ever Yorkshire Post Yorkshire Day Festival could become a Glastonbury-sty...crowds for turning out to celebrate Yorkshire Day. She said: "Why wouldn't anyone want...special appearance by the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, as one of the charity's two yellow helicopters flew ...

Article: The best of the region's food and drink at Yorkshire Day festival
Yorkshire Post;  July 21, 2008 ;     497 words ......across White Rose country will be cooked up at the Yorkshire Post's inaugural Yorkshire Day Festival, to be held at Harewood House, near Leeds, this summer. The three-day event runs from Yorkshire Day on August 1 to August 3 and numerous members...to the event's chosen charity, the ...

Article: MPs in call to extend air ambulance hours
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  February 21, 2007 ;     288 words ......to extend the flying time of the Cornwall Air Ambulance. Currently the air ambulance, which is run entirely by charitable donations...with the pilot, are paid by the NHS, and air ambulance managers say the NHS is unable to release...

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.
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  May 26, 2008 ;     651 words ...Wiltshire's Air Ambulance will continue in its present form...guarantee exactly in what form the air ambulance would operate around Wiltshire...the suggestion that Wiltshire's Air Ambulance could be removed. "We're committed...

Article: Flying medics on a mission to save lives ; The skies of Bristol and Bath are now being patrolled by the area's own flying hospital... its first air ambulance.
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  June 3, 2008 ;     558 words ......area's own flying hospital... its first air ambulance. The former Avon area's air ambulance is based at Filton Airport and is able...Service (GWAS) are adamant the new Avon air ambulance will not mean the end of the line for...

Article: Air ambulance is safe in our hands ; The bosses of the West's ambulance service said Wiltshire's Air Ambulance "did not need saving" yesterday - but could not guarantee the county would still have its own designated helicopter in years to come.
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  May 15, 2008 ;     564 words ......st's ambulance service said Wiltshire's Air Ambulance "did not need saving" yesterday - but...hidden agenda" to scrap Wiltshire's air ambulance and replace it with one based in Filton...over fears the county's much-supported air ambulance service would be regionalised. Yesterday...

Article: The air ambulance saved my son's life ( we can't lose it.(News)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  March 3, 2005 ;     400 words ......first-hand how vital the work of the air ambulance is. When her son Alex was just three...needed. Northumberland's Blyth-based air ambulance was called and helped save his life...accident or a farm accident, how the air ambulance does save lives and is invaluable in...

Article: Crew of three killed as air ambulance hits power cables
The Independent - London;  July 27, 1998 ;     375 words ......paramedics were killed yesterday when an air ambulance crashed and burst into flames after...was called back. Moments later the air ambulance collided with 11,000-volt overhead...near the village of Burham. The Kent Air Ambulance, which is funded by donations, has...

Article: AMs urged to back air ambulance.(News)
Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales);  March 16, 2003 ;     200 words ...NATIONAL Assembly members are being urged to back calls for a second air ambulance for Wales. The Welsh Air Ambulance Charity, which already operates an air ambulance from Swansea, needs to raise pounds 750,000 to launch the new service...

Article: What price life?; Most of Britain's life-saving air ambulance operations are not government-funded because they are 'not value for money'. Crash survivor Lisa Salmon investigates.(Health)
The Birmingham Post (England);  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......every year the majority of Britain's air ambulance operations receive no funding from...service saves lives. Since the first air ambulance took off from Cornwall in 1982, a nationwide...not so much in the time it takes an air ambulance to reach a patient, but in the time...

Article: Cash plea to help second air ambulance take off
The Northern Echo;  June 17, 2002 ;     395 words ......North-East is in line for a second air ambulance - but campaigners need to raise more...permanently. On July 8, the Great North Air Ambulance (GNAA) charity will launch a month...order to raise enough money to keep the air ambulance at Teesside permanently. The charity...

Article: Donations fly in to buy second air ambulance
Hull Daily Mail (UK);  November 2, 2006 ;     246 words ...E Yorks: A second Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) could be flying by spring after...Airfield, near Pocklington. Yorkshire Air Ambulance flew Mr Hammond, who is now recovering...will enable the service to lease an air ambulance for a year and continued fundraising...

Article: MP's pounds20,000 air ambulance gift
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  October 4, 2006 ;     207 words ......has been made to the Cornish Air Ambulance after an MP for the county...catch up with the crew of the Air Ambulance and to deliver her pounds20...Harold Chapman, chairman of the Air Ambulance Trust, said: "I'd like to say...

Article: By all means set up an air ambulance for Bristol, but it must not be at the cost of Wiltshire's excellent service ... ; Health chiefs were criticised yesterday for planning to axe Wiltshire's air ambulance and replace it with a worse service outside the county.
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  May 14, 2008 ;     581 words ......yesterday for planning to axe Wiltshire's air ambulance and replace it with a worse service...Service Trust (GWAS) want a regional air ambulance covering most of the West - at the...the NHS chiefs a penny to keep the air ambulance in the sky. Yesterday, MPs in the county...