Let me bring you some breaking news on the nhs. The average Response Time in february for ambulances in england dealing with the most urgent incidents, defined as calls from people with life threatening illnesses or injuries, was eight minutes and 25 seconds, nhs figures show. This is down very slightly from eight minutes and 26 Seconds Injanuary, but is above the target standard Response Time of seven minutes. Ambulances took an average of 36 minutes and 20 seconds last month to respond to emergency calls such as heart attacks, strokes and sepsis. This is down from a0 minutes and six Seconds Injanuary while the target is 18 minutes. Response times for urgent calls, such as late stages of labour, Non Severe Burns and diabetes, averaged two hours, four minutes and 12 seconds in february, down from two hours, 12 minutes and 48 seconds in january. Back to our top story. The communities secretary, michael gove, has told the bbc why the government is introducing a new definitgion for extrem
affronts to everything we stand for is russia s invasion of ukraine and hughton s blockade of the ports that would otherwise be shipping food to the world s paris people. vladimir putin. at this moment, nearly 25 million tonnes of corn and wheat is piled up in silos across ukraine, held hostage by russia. britain supports the united nations plan to get that food out and we will invest over £370 million in global food security this year including £130 million for the world food programme. we want to work alongside our commonwealth friends to understand your needs, your priorities, and to deliverjoint solutions to a crisis that president putin has deliberately engineered. for now, it only remains for me to thank every commonwealth member for having given the united kingdom the chance to serve as during office and as i pass on this responsibility to the president, a close friend and partner, i know that he shares my boundless optimism about the future of the commonwealth at
Israels Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, vowed to Crush And Destroy Hamas so that it no longer posed any threat, and said he would secure the release of the remaining hostages still being held in gaza. In the war that has followed the 7th Of October attacks, gazas Hamas Run Health Ministry says more than 33,000 people have been killed there. On sunday, Tens Of Thousands of protesters in israel called for the Israeli Government to strike a deal to bring the hostages home and for mr netanyahu to resign. 0ur International Editor jeremy bowen has been reflecting on six months of the war, and sent us this special report. 0ver six months, gaza has been ravaged by war, disease, death and now imminent famine, caused by israels siege. The un calls it a betrayal of humanity. Kibbutz nir oz, right on israels border with gaza, feels like a time capsule stuck in the horrors of the 7th Of October. Hamas broke in at dawn. They killed and took Hostage A Quarter of the 400 or so israelis who lived h
because we would have needed people to come into the office. here at leeds building society, they have had about 50% fewer staff in the office than normal this week. but it has still been business as usual. now we can cope with 1000 people at any point in time working from home, so the benefit of that has been, when we see things like these strikes or indeed when there is an unexpected snowfall, people just work from home and there is no impact on the business. the option for hybrid working has watered down the power of weekday strike disruption. but industrial action at heathrow leaves few other options for passengers heading on holiday. because you can t head to the beach on zoom. coletta smith, bbc news. now, many festival goers have had a difficult time trying to get to glastonbury the five day music festival in somerset which is back this year for the first time in three years and the journey in doesn t seem to have dampened spirits.
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