READY: Volunteers are readying to return to community service A leading air ambulance service is preparing its volunteers for a return to helping out in the community. After a year of adaptation during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) are readying to return to a more familiar way of operating in coming months. As lockdown rules continue to be relaxed, the GNAAS community fundraising team have been meeting with their volunteers to get them ready to go back out into the community. On their Facebook page, they confirmed that staff member Tracy Bowstead visited Alan and Elizabeth Bland from Bellingham who service GNAAS collection tins as well as raising their own funds.