The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance has landed at a playground in Newport this evening (Sunday) in response to a medical emergency in the town. Having left its Thruxton base at around 17:45 the yellow-liveried stand-in helicopter landed at the Victoria Recreation Ground – near the play equipment – at around 18:00. Flying doctors immediately made their way down Alderbury Lane towards Old Westminster Lane where the incident is unfolding. A couple of ambulances and a Critical Care Paramedic from the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service are on scene with it understood that a single fire appliance from Newport was also called to help, however they have since stood down. It is unclear as to the exact nature of the incident. UPDATE @ 19:10 – The patient has been conveyed by air ambulance to Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.
UPDATED: MEDICAL EMERGENCY IN COUNTY TOWN SEES AIR AMBULANCE LAND AT VICTORIA REC
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As Labour is releasing criminals to make room in our Prisons, yet giving amnesty to illegals, then one assumes the air ambulance may need a few more craft and crew.
Two wrongs create serious problems.
Watch, then learn.
What? At least try to make a relevant point. Election is over now, probably time to bore off with all this inflammatory nonsense. We have always had criminals, the island has in the past hosted far more than it does now. We don’t have any illegal immigration problems here and as far as I can see the air ambulance still shows up when we need it. Get a life.
Flagged as off topic. Please remove.
It’s pretty reprehensible to publicise some poor person’s personal emergency, but allowing someone to use what was probably a very worrying time for them and their family as an opportunity for political point scoring is disgusting.
What is the point of pre-moderating posts if you allow people to do this?
Unless your post contains trigger words that the bot can recognise, there is no moderation. Just as there is no sub-editing and no knowledge of the English language.
IE will now prove me wrong by scrubbing this one!
What on EARTH has that to do with the article???????
‘Watch, then learn.’ what?
Oh yes…….’if you had voted for someone else, none of this would have happened and this would be a utopia now, where life was good for all of us (except those we don’t like).’
What, exactly, are you on about? This is like some random outpouring of bile that has nothing to do with a fricking helicopter land in a playground
What is with this ‘county town’ crap, it’s Newport