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Ambulance Trust misses crucial time target
Five ambulance trusts across England, including Yorkshire, failed to meet crucial response time targets, new figures suggest.
Ambulance crews across the country did not arrive on scene within eight minutes for 26% of patients who needed urgent emergency assistance last year, data suggests.
Crews are supposed to respond to 75% of "Red 1" emergency calls - the most critical calls which cover patients who have stopped breathing and do not have a pulse - within eight minutes.
But between 2012 and 2013, just 74% of patients were reached in the time frame,figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) show.
Crews in Yorkshire, the North West, the East Midlands, the East of England and the South West did not achieve the goal, according to the HSCIC.
Final farewell for Olympic star Donna
Two hundred people gathered at a village church today to say farewell to the former Olympic athlete Donna Hartley.
The 58 year old wife of actor and comedian Bobby Knutt, died suddenly in the garden of her home in South Yorkshire earlier this month. Kate Walby reports
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BBC "should help pay for museum" says Galloway
The BBC should help to pay for the National Media Museum George Galloway said tonight during a House of Commons debate.
The Respect MP for Bradford West said the national broadcaster could help to "renovate its tattered public reputation" by contributing to the upkeep of the museum.
He said there could be a similar scheme where the rail industry contributed to the National Railway Museum because British taxpayers contribute to the upkeep of the rail network.
Mr Galloway commended Culture Minster Ed Vaizey for this week ruling out the closure of the Bradford-based Media Museum but said he always considered him the "lipstick on the pig" of a "Government of brutes".
Sun shines on the Lincolnshire Show
Thousands of people descended on the Lincolnshire Showground today for the 129th Lincolnshire Show . Chris Kiddey reports
Birthday of Mallard designer marked
The birthday of the man behind the world's fastest steam train has been marked with a special historic re-enactment today.
Sir Nigel Gresley, who was born on this day in 1876, designed the Mallard, which will celebrate 75 years of holding the speed record for steam on July 3.
Actor Chris Cade from Platform 4 Theatre dressed as Gresley and posed beside the famous loco at the National Railway Museum in York to recreate a classic photograph from 1938 - the year of the Mallard's record run.
Council tax protest over potholes
Swathes of our local road network could be "brought to its knees' by enormous potholes, if there's more bad flooding or a hard winter.
That's the warning today from town hall bosses who say there simply isn't enough money to fill the holes. Well now one resident of an estate that's riddled with potholes says he's so fed up he's threatening to stop paying his council tax. Jon Hill reports.
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Hull makes final four for City of Culture
Hull has made the final shortlist to become UK city of culture 2017. If it wins, it could bring significant social and economic benefits to the area, as Sarah Clark reports
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Firefighters tackle water treatment plant blaze
Fire crews spent the morning tackling a blaze at Saltend Waste Water Treatment Works in Hull. They got the call at around seven A.M. No-one was injured and fire investigators are now trying to figure out how it started.
An odour control unit was damaged, though the much larger, three point five million pound odour unit that was recently commissioned continue to operate as normal. Calendar spoke to Phil Leake of Humberside Fire and Rescue about the blaze
Flood prevention petition handed in to No.10
Campaigners demanding improvements are made to flood defences in the Upper Calder Valley handed in a petition to 10 Downing Street today.
Barry Greenwood from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Action Group delivered a 3,000-signature petition to the prime minister calling on the government to do more to prevent future flooding. The warning comes on the first anniversary of flash floods that badly affected towns in the area.
