The Home Secretary has released a white paper which will bring sweeping changes to policing across England and Wales which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Secamb said by calling 999 the public were not automatically going to get an ambulance [Mark Norman BBC] Ambulance service call ...

Ambulance service call handlers have described how they dealt with "unprecedented" numbers of 999 calls. South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb) dealt with 22,500 calls between 5 and 11 January, ...

Jurors heard the mother of a man accused of throwing his teenage girlfriend from a tower block make a distraught plea for help as she told a 999 operator "she's dying, she's awake at the minute but ...

‘Only call 999 for emergencies’ - That is the message SCAS is putting out this Christmas as the service faces record numbers this Christmas. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you ...

A huge fire broke out at a tower block, with a 19-year-old man arrested in connection with the blaze. The fire started early this morning at a flat in Calder Court in Whifflet, Coatbridge, east of ...

David Severn, a Sussex Police contact and control officer, said he joined the force as he wanted to "do more" to help people Emergency call handlers say they "love helping" those in need as they ...

The London Ambulance Service (LAS) has urged people to only call 999 in a “life-threatening emergency”, after it received the same number of emergency calls on Thursday and Friday as a typical New ...

People taking gabapentin may need to call 999 in certain emergencies relating to the drug, according to NHS guidance. Gabapentin, while not strictly classified as a painkiller, is sometimes prescribed ...