11.   PEOPLE in Teesdale are worried about ambulance cover after a vehicle took half an hour to respond to an emergency call.

12.   He said the number of emergency calls received in the Dales area of County Durham rarely exceeded one or two.

13.   Mr Threlfall said the incident arose because two emergency calls had been made in Teesdale within an hour.

14.   AN ambulance chief has defended the record of his service after claims that an ambulance took more than half an hour to answer an emergency call in Teesdale.

15.   He added that the delay was the unfortunate result of three emergency calls arriving within an hour.

16.   CONCERN has been expressed that emergency calls are being answered by people who may not understand local accents.

17.   An emergency call went out to an executive at the company who promised to pull some strings to help me.

18.   An emergency call was placed to Penn, who had earlier turned down the role due to scheduling conflicts, but by then had a window of free time.

19.   And officials noted that the emergency call about Dew came from a phone, not from someone flagging down a police car.