And the Legendary British rock Guitaristjeff Beck has died at the age of 78. And coming up on the bbc news channel. Australia refuse to play cricket in aghanistan in a stand against the treatment of women by the taliban. As they withdraw from marchs one day series. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. If you called an ambulance in england back in october for someone who was having a heart attack or a stroke, the average waiting time was an hour. The latest figures from nhs england showjust how much the situation has worsened since then. If you made the same call last month, the wait was half an hour longer a full 92 minutes on average before an ambulance would get to you. The target is 18 minutes. For weeks, weve been reporting on the unrelenting pressures facing the nhs this winter. Senior doctors have told us the Health Service is operating on a knife edge. Now our Health Editor hugh pym has been allowed into the royal Bolton Hospital, and into a e, which is at the epicen
and the legendary british rock guitaristjeff beck has died at the age of 78. and coming up on the bbc news channel. australia refuse to play cricket in aghanistan in a stand against the treatment of women by the taliban.. as they withdraw from march s one day series. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. if you called an ambulance in england back in october for someone who was having a heart attack or a stroke, the average waiting time was an hour. the latest figures from nhs england showjust how much the situation has worsened since then. if you made the same call last month, the wait was half an hour longer a full 92 minutes on average before an ambulance would get to you. the target is 18 minutes. for weeks, we ve been reporting on the unrelenting pressures facing the nhs this winter. senior doctors have told us the health service is operating on a knife edge. now our health editor hugh pym has been allowed into the royal bolton hospital, and into a&e, which i
and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who s died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england, ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. were the worst on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average, the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency, 35% waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls ever, record waits in a&e, new figures today show in blunt terms the pressure the nhs is under. martin started feeling chest pains in his home in east sussex in november. his family rang three times for an ambulance. we kept thinking, the ambulance will pull up any minute, it is going to ar
and only then when worried teachers from walworth academy in south london forced the issue. the children were among those delighted to be in class. but a year on and the girls are not here. the home office suddenly moved them to another hotel in the north of england without arranging school places for them. look at the care that has been taken. isn t it glorious? that s a lot of work. principaljess west says she cried when she received handmade christmas cards from some of the afghan girls who were forced to leave the school. we know them, we love them, we look after them, we care for them. what s really difficult is to see them moving from a situation that was precarious, that we did everything we could to try and shore up for them, to another situation that isn t permanent and is just as precarious. one of the girls, studying for her gcses, has to repeat a year because local schools have no
look at the care that s been taken. isn t it glorious? that s a lot of work. principaljess west says she cried when she received handmade christmas cards from some of the afghan girls who were forced to leave the school. we know them, we love them, we look after them, we care for them. what s really difficult is to see them moving from a situation that was precarious, that we did everything we could to try and shore up for them, to another situation that isn t permanent and is just as precarious. najma, studying for her gcses, must repeat a year because local schools have no year 11 vacancies. marzia is having to study online with material provided by walworth academy. i think they broke their promise and the hotel is like a jail. the government is spending £1 million a day on hotels for afghans because it can t source suitable permanent homes for often large family groups. abdullah, not his real name, was a sniper who worked alongside the british military in afghanistan.