with millions of people banned from ordering commercial food deliveries. a royal donation for bowel babe. the duke and duchess of cambridge give money to deborahjames cancer research fund, which has now raised more than £3 million. celtic regain their crown in scotland. they win their tenth scottish premiership title in 11 years, after drawing with dundee united. also this morning, we meet the man who has broken the british record for the longest flight by a paper aeroplane. and in whether it looks like a dry day for most today, with sunny spells. a few showers in the north. details later in the programme. good morning. it s thursday, the 12th of may. ambulance services across the uk are in crisis, because they can t guarantee reaching a patient in good time. that s the verdict of the president of the royal college of emergency medicine. it comes after bbc research revealed that the number of serious safety
falling towards the shed. 81 year old carol took a tumble here in her front garden last year. again, an ambulance should have arrived within two hours. it took almost twice as long as that. the if we hadn t been here, and she was an elderly person living on her own, she would have laid face down on a concrete floor in agony for hours, waiting for an ambulance, which isjust. the one thing that has done this completely knocked my confidence. i m frightened to walk around to tesco s on my own. ijust can t do it. so it s interfered with my life completely. nhs england says record demand means the last few months have been some of the toughest ever for its staff. it says safety is its absolute priority, and hospitals, ambulance trusts and care homes are working together to see more patients as quickly as possible. jim reed, bbc news. new figures on the health of the uk economy will be released in about an hour, with fears a recession could be on the way.
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because her back and her neck injuries could have been quite severe. it s the first time i ve ever had to phone for an ambulance in my whole entire life, and i ve got four children. and so, when i really needed it, it wasn t there to help. and it should be. the ambulance service said it was under significant pressure that day because of high demand. it apologised and said willow should have been assessed differently, and paramedics assigned more quickly. across the uk, ambulance response times have been rising sharply over the last year. in england, the most serious, life threatening cases should be seen within seven minutes. in march, the average was a record nine and a half minutes. for so called category 2 emergencies, like strokes or heart attacks, the target is 18 minutes. the average is now over an hour. in wales, scotland and northern ireland, services are under similar pressure, with near record wait times. we ve always been able to get ambulances to people, to bring them in. w