NWAS students could soon be treating virtual patients on the way to becoming qualified paramedics

Emergency crews are hunting for a hoax caller who rang 999 claiming two people were trapped in a Lancashire river

Controversial plans which would have put private ambulances on the streets of Lancashire and unqualified staff manning 999 vehicles have been withdrawn after ambulance workers threatened to strike

A paramedic ordered a heart attack patient to be quiet and clean up his own vomit as he writhed in agony on a hospital floor, a disciplinary hearing heard

A lonely drunk spent 18 hours phoning 999 just to have someone to talk to.

Burglars ransacked an ambulance station — while paramedics were out responding to 999 calls.

Of 7,018 calls that were considered to be Class A or immediately life threatening, ambulances or rapid response vehicles arrived within the recommended eight minutes for only 4,849 of them.

All emergency services involved in the Hillsborough tragedy 20 years ago are poised to release their own censored files