Episode 8

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0:00:02 > 0:00:06From the Highlands of Scotland to the coast of Cornwall,

0:00:06 > 0:00:11the Great British countryside is spectacular.

0:00:11 > 0:00:16But we work and play in it at our peril.

0:00:17 > 0:00:20And when things go wrong,

0:00:20 > 0:00:22the emergency services race to the rescue...

0:00:22 > 0:00:26This chap is having a heart attack and we need to get him in quickly.

0:00:27 > 0:00:32We've got a cow on the road. Countryside policing at its finest!

0:00:32 > 0:00:35..going hundreds of miles against the clock,

0:00:35 > 0:00:40battling the elements and braving the waves.

0:00:42 > 0:00:47From fields and forests to cliffs and country roads,

0:00:47 > 0:00:51we'll be right at the heart of the action

0:00:51 > 0:00:53with police fighting crime...

0:00:53 > 0:00:57I'm not arguing it, I'm reporting you for it.

0:00:57 > 0:00:59Paramedics saving lives...

0:01:00 > 0:01:02BABY CRIES

0:01:02 > 0:01:05And lifeguards patrolling the seas.

0:01:05 > 0:01:09We're there as the emergency services pull together

0:01:09 > 0:01:12to pick up, patch up and protect the public.

0:01:12 > 0:01:16This is Countryside 999.

0:01:34 > 0:01:39Coming up, Countryside cops wage war on dodgy drivers in Wales.

0:01:45 > 0:01:47The Cornwall Air Ambulance race to reach a man

0:01:47 > 0:01:49suffering a massive heart attack.

0:01:55 > 0:01:58And paramedics pick up a pensioner

0:01:58 > 0:02:00who's had a nasty fall north of the border.

0:02:07 > 0:02:09The great outdoors.

0:02:09 > 0:02:12We Brits make nearly three billion trips

0:02:12 > 0:02:14to the countryside every year.

0:02:18 > 0:02:22A relaxing run in the country may be a favourite national pastime,

0:02:22 > 0:02:24but scenic doesn't always mean safe.

0:02:30 > 0:02:32Forget the sedate Sunday driver,

0:02:32 > 0:02:36meet middle-aged man and his motorbike.

0:02:37 > 0:02:41Powys in Wales has 3,400 miles of road

0:02:41 > 0:02:44and bikers come from across Britain to enjoy its stunning routes.

0:02:46 > 0:02:48They make up just 1% of the local traffic,

0:02:48 > 0:02:53but account for 37% of the people killed or seriously injured.

0:02:55 > 0:02:58Today, PC Gareth Earp and Andy Rogers of Powys police

0:02:58 > 0:03:00are patrolling in an unmarked car

0:03:00 > 0:03:04in and around the village of Bwlch, a hot spot for antisocial driving.

0:03:06 > 0:03:07So, we're out here in Bwlch

0:03:07 > 0:03:10just checking the speed limits, enforce the speed limits

0:03:10 > 0:03:13and deal with any offences we can find in the motorcyclists.

0:03:13 > 0:03:16Every Sunday we run Operation Darwin,

0:03:16 > 0:03:21which is an operation to set up to educate and enforce the laws

0:03:21 > 0:03:24with regards to motorcyclists and cars, but mainly motorcyclists.

0:03:24 > 0:03:28Ex-armed-response cop Gareth has been working in traffic

0:03:28 > 0:03:32for two years after swapping his assault rifle for a speed gun.

0:03:32 > 0:03:34GUN BEEPS

0:03:34 > 0:03:35Oh, no.

0:03:35 > 0:03:37Generally, most serious injury

0:03:37 > 0:03:41or fatal accidents we have involving motorcycles

0:03:41 > 0:03:44are on a Saturday or mainly a Sunday, Sunday afternoon.

0:03:44 > 0:03:46And just by us being here,

0:03:46 > 0:03:49the bikes will wave to the other bikes telling them to slow down,

0:03:49 > 0:03:52if that works, that's brilliant, cos they'll ride slower.

0:03:55 > 0:03:58It's not long before Gareth spots his first

0:03:58 > 0:04:00speeding biker and gives chase.

0:04:04 > 0:04:07He may overtake on a double white line or do a dangerous overtake,

0:04:07 > 0:04:10he's actually riding quite tidily in all fairness to him.

0:04:11 > 0:04:14Although he's driving at 80 mile an hour in places.

0:04:17 > 0:04:19He's turning off here.

0:04:19 > 0:04:22He's not the ones we want, really. He's riding tidy.

0:04:22 > 0:04:26Although he's touched 80, the biker gets away with it, this time.

0:04:26 > 0:04:30But 20 minutes later, he's back, and riding his luck.

0:04:30 > 0:04:32ALARM BEEPS

0:04:32 > 0:04:33There you are, 43.

0:04:33 > 0:04:36MOTORCYCLE WHIZZES

0:04:42 > 0:04:45The motorbike we followed earlier that pulled off in front of us,

0:04:45 > 0:04:49that was doing about 80 miles an hour, he's just come through now at 43 miles an hour.

0:04:49 > 0:04:52There's enough there to pull him over and have a chat to him.

0:04:54 > 0:04:58Looks like this Steve McQueen won't be making his great escape.

0:05:13 > 0:05:15We're sat there doing speed checks in Bwlch

0:05:15 > 0:05:19and you've just come through there at 43 miles an hour.

0:05:19 > 0:05:22Through Bwlch. That little village, there, 30-miles-an-hour zone,

0:05:22 > 0:05:24you were doing 43 miles an hour.

0:05:26 > 0:05:29I've never met you before, never seen the bike,

0:05:29 > 0:05:31but over the last 20 minutes,

0:05:31 > 0:05:34I've seen you doing 80 miles an hour on the main road, and then, 43.

0:05:34 > 0:05:37I can't ignore the both of them.

0:05:37 > 0:05:39The reason we're there, lot of complaints from the locals

0:05:39 > 0:05:41about antisocial riding of motorbikes and things,

0:05:41 > 0:05:45you know, speed of vehicles going through, loud exhaust.

0:05:45 > 0:05:47..No, fair one. If you comply with the fixed-penalty ticket,

0:05:47 > 0:05:50no further action will be taken. If you don't comply with the ticket,

0:05:50 > 0:05:53you'll have a summons through the post to go to court.

0:05:53 > 0:05:55The biker's slapped with a £100 fine

0:05:55 > 0:05:58and Gareth and Andy scout for a new hiding place.

0:06:00 > 0:06:03But it's not just the two-wheeled weekend warriors

0:06:03 > 0:06:04pushing their luck today.

0:06:04 > 0:06:05ALARM BEEPS

0:06:15 > 0:06:18At 81, he can have a ticket for that.

0:06:28 > 0:06:32- Hello, sir, are you all right? - Yeah, fine, thanks.- Do you know why I stopped you?- No.

0:06:32 > 0:06:35We were parked at the bottom of the hill down by the toilets,

0:06:35 > 0:06:37you had a motorbike behind you,

0:06:37 > 0:06:40you pulled out and overtook a couple of cars going up a hill,

0:06:40 > 0:06:43one car it was, and you went up to 82 miles an hour when you overtook.

0:06:43 > 0:06:45That bike was behind you initially.

0:06:45 > 0:06:48Have you got any points on your licence at all?

0:06:48 > 0:06:5082 is not...

0:06:50 > 0:06:5282 miles an hour is 22 miles an hour

0:06:52 > 0:06:54more than you should be doing, yeah.

0:06:54 > 0:06:5682 is fine for Brands Hatch,

0:06:56 > 0:06:59not the Brecon National Park.

0:06:59 > 0:07:02Unfortunately my hands are tied, 82 miles an hour,

0:07:02 > 0:07:04you're almost out of the realms of having a ticket, OK,

0:07:04 > 0:07:06it's quite fast for these roads on a Sunday,

0:07:06 > 0:07:08there's motorbikes on the road, other road users.

0:07:08 > 0:07:1082 miles, and you have a crash doing that,

0:07:10 > 0:07:13someone's going to get hurt. It's my job to go out there

0:07:13 > 0:07:15and enforce the speed limits on the road.

0:07:15 > 0:07:18Half of all road deaths in the UK

0:07:18 > 0:07:21occur on single-carriageway rural roads like this.

0:07:21 > 0:07:24There's a strict speed limit of 60,

0:07:24 > 0:07:26and a limit to Gareth's sympathy, too.

0:07:28 > 0:07:31I have got leniency, but at 82 miles an hour,

0:07:31 > 0:07:33there's not, my hands are tied, aren't they, yeah?

0:07:33 > 0:07:36Have you got any ID on you a all?

0:07:36 > 0:07:39The two options you've got, you can have a fixed-penalty ticket

0:07:39 > 0:07:41which is three points and a £100 fine,

0:07:41 > 0:07:44or you can opt to go to court within six months.

0:07:44 > 0:07:47Just watch your speed, there's a lot of us about today,

0:07:47 > 0:07:50and there's a lot ahead of you as well. So, just watch your speed.

0:07:58 > 0:08:01Later, it gets awkward when a nurse spends a penny

0:08:01 > 0:08:04and gets more than she bargains for.

0:08:04 > 0:08:06Hello, you all right?

0:08:06 > 0:08:07No, I've got to use the loo!

0:08:17 > 0:08:19For those of us lucky enough to live in the countryside,

0:08:19 > 0:08:23rural living is officially good for our health,

0:08:23 > 0:08:25but there is a trade-off.

0:08:27 > 0:08:30Miles from nowhere can mean miles from help.

0:08:32 > 0:08:35One rural emergency service going that extra country mile

0:08:35 > 0:08:39to get us medical care quickly, is Cornwall's Air Ambulance.

0:08:42 > 0:08:43From its new base in Newquay,

0:08:43 > 0:08:46the Helimed flies up to four missions daily.

0:08:48 > 0:08:53One in three of those will be patients with serious medical conditions.

0:08:53 > 0:08:56And today a 999 call has just come in.

0:08:57 > 0:09:02A man is suffering a massive heart attack and needs airlifted urgently.

0:09:02 > 0:09:05On shift, aircrew paramedics are Ben Mayhew up front

0:09:05 > 0:09:07with the pilot and Mark Fuszard.

0:09:12 > 0:09:15We've been asked to go and attend an incident

0:09:15 > 0:09:18of a 65-year-old male who is having a heart attack

0:09:18 > 0:09:21in ASDA in St Austell.

0:09:21 > 0:09:23The crew have got on scene

0:09:23 > 0:09:27and have done a preliminary ECG and he's pale and sweaty.

0:09:27 > 0:09:29So, we need to get him into hospital pretty quickly.

0:09:29 > 0:09:33The team are heading 15 miles east to St Austell.

0:09:34 > 0:09:38The 65-year-old man collapsed whilst out shopping.

0:09:38 > 0:09:41His wife found him slumped against the wheel of their car.

0:09:41 > 0:09:44It simply doesn't get more urgent.

0:09:45 > 0:09:48We have a saying which is, "Time is muscle,"

0:09:48 > 0:09:52and the longer that muscle of the heart isn't getting oxygen,

0:09:52 > 0:09:54then that part of the heart will die.

0:09:55 > 0:09:58We need to get oxygen to that part of the heart

0:09:58 > 0:10:00so it will function again correctly.

0:10:00 > 0:10:03Someone in the UK has a heart attack every two minutes.

0:10:03 > 0:10:07One in three of those will die before reaching hospital.

0:10:07 > 0:10:10What this man needs most is time.

0:10:10 > 0:10:14And the Helimed can give him that.

0:10:14 > 0:10:18By road he's probably about 35 minutes,

0:10:18 > 0:10:22but what we have got to take into consideration as well

0:10:22 > 0:10:26is it's half-past five, and it's going to be fairly busy roads

0:10:26 > 0:10:29in and around the Truro and the St Austell area,

0:10:29 > 0:10:31so 35 minutes at best

0:10:31 > 0:10:33whereas we're going to be less than ten minutes

0:10:33 > 0:10:36flying him from the scene to the hospital

0:10:36 > 0:10:39so, he's going to be in the cath lab being operated on

0:10:39 > 0:10:43before the land ambulance would probably even get there.

0:10:43 > 0:10:47Just 15 minutes after receiving the 999 call,

0:10:47 > 0:10:49the crew spot the supermarket.

0:10:49 > 0:10:51There's ASDA.

0:10:53 > 0:10:55The road's been closed...

0:10:55 > 0:10:58we're right over the back of it, see that big white building?

0:10:58 > 0:10:59See the posts?

0:10:59 > 0:11:02They can't land in a busy supermarket car park,

0:11:02 > 0:11:07so, the crew have planned to use the grounds of a nearby rugby club.

0:11:07 > 0:11:09But first, they've got to find it.

0:11:09 > 0:11:12Two seconds, guys, I'm not sure this is the right rugby club.

0:11:12 > 0:11:15- Right, OK. - It's right behind ASDA, so...

0:11:16 > 0:11:17Let me just get my bearings.

0:11:17 > 0:11:20Within minutes, they find the rugby club.

0:11:20 > 0:11:23Over on your one o'clock there's an ambulance there already.

0:11:23 > 0:11:28And it looks like the paramedics are already there with the patient.

0:11:28 > 0:11:31The crew now need to get him to hospital quickly

0:11:31 > 0:11:34or he could go into full cardiac arrest.

0:11:34 > 0:11:36Every minute's delay is heart muscle lost.

0:11:46 > 0:11:49Back in Wales, PCs Gareth and Andy have been

0:11:49 > 0:11:51on the prowl for country speeders.

0:11:53 > 0:11:57Earlier, they booked a biker for doing 43 in a 30 zone

0:11:57 > 0:12:00and a motorist doing 82 in a 60 zone.

0:12:02 > 0:12:05But saving lives isn't just about killing speed.

0:12:05 > 0:12:09The pair spot a driver using a mobile phone.

0:12:09 > 0:12:13Obviously, driving on the phone, you're not paying full attention

0:12:13 > 0:12:16to the vehicles ahead and the changing road environment.

0:12:16 > 0:12:17Hello, you all right?

0:12:17 > 0:12:22- No, I've got to use the loo. - Do you know why I stopped you or followed you?

0:12:22 > 0:12:24I was on the phone cos my work called me.

0:12:24 > 0:12:26- Can I use the toilet quickly? - Yeah, go on.

0:12:26 > 0:12:28She might be off the phone,

0:12:28 > 0:12:30but there's still one urgent call to answer.

0:12:32 > 0:12:34Come back here when you've been.

0:12:34 > 0:12:38Giving Gareth and Andy the chance to stretch their legs.

0:12:40 > 0:12:42Local carer Lisa had just taken a work call

0:12:42 > 0:12:44when Gareth and Andy spotted her.

0:12:46 > 0:12:48Do you know why I stopped you?

0:12:48 > 0:12:50- Cos I answered a work call. - You drove past us.

0:12:50 > 0:12:53You had the phone up to your right ear, followed you in here,

0:12:53 > 0:12:56you were still on it when you pulled up here, OK. Fair cop?

0:12:56 > 0:12:59- Oh, absolutely.- Right, have you got any points on your licence?

0:12:59 > 0:13:01No! I don't want any either.

0:13:03 > 0:13:06Unfortunately, being on the phone when you're driving

0:13:06 > 0:13:08- is three points, a £100 fine.- OK.

0:13:08 > 0:13:11I've got no option other than to give you a ticket

0:13:11 > 0:13:13or offer you a trial in court.

0:13:13 > 0:13:16What would you rather take, a ticket at the roadside, or go to court?

0:13:16 > 0:13:19- I've committed an offence. - A lot of people don't see it as straight as you.

0:13:21 > 0:13:25It's straightforward, I committed the offence. How do I get rid of the points?

0:13:25 > 0:13:28- Right, let me get a ticket out. - I can't have many.

0:13:28 > 0:13:31- You can have 12.- No, I cannot. - How long have you had your licence?

0:13:31 > 0:13:35- In this country or in America? - In this country, then.

0:13:37 > 0:13:38- Four months.- Four months.

0:13:38 > 0:13:40- How long in America?- 20 years.

0:13:40 > 0:13:4320 years. You can have six in this country.

0:13:43 > 0:13:47- How can I get rid of them? - They come off in three years.

0:13:47 > 0:13:49A lot of people have points on their licence these days,

0:13:49 > 0:13:51most people have points on their licence.

0:13:51 > 0:13:53- I don't want them on my licence. - I know.

0:13:53 > 0:13:56- Right, have you got any ID? - I've got my driver's licence.

0:13:56 > 0:13:57Can I have a look at that, please?

0:13:57 > 0:14:00Lisa's had her UK Licence less than two years

0:14:00 > 0:14:03so she can only carry up to six points.

0:14:03 > 0:14:06Three more after today and she could lose her licence.

0:14:09 > 0:14:12Driving using a mobile is a serious offence.

0:14:12 > 0:14:14You're less aware of your surroundings

0:14:14 > 0:14:17and four times more likely to have an accident.

0:14:19 > 0:14:22Right, couple of things, you don't have to say anything,

0:14:22 > 0:14:25but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned,

0:14:25 > 0:14:28something you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

0:14:28 > 0:14:31Not under arrest, just means I can write down any answers you give me.

0:14:31 > 0:14:35Next step for Gareth is to take her licence.

0:14:35 > 0:14:38You can either give both parts to me now and I'll get them sorted out

0:14:38 > 0:14:41with the points, or you can opt to take them to the nearest...

0:14:41 > 0:14:43- You are going to take that away from me?- Yeah.

0:14:43 > 0:14:46- What do I use to drive?- This ticket, this becomes your licence.

0:14:46 > 0:14:48It's up to you, you can either take them to the police station

0:14:48 > 0:14:50within seven days and they can take them off you

0:14:50 > 0:14:53or I can take them off you now and save you going to the police station.

0:14:53 > 0:14:55I don't even know where the police station is!

0:14:55 > 0:14:57If you get the other bit for me, I'll take it in.

0:14:57 > 0:15:00Just a bit of advice for you, a lot of people get hurt on these roads

0:15:00 > 0:15:04- with accidents...- Oh, yeah.- ..killed, particularly on the A40.

0:15:04 > 0:15:06If you are on the phone, you get distracted, even...

0:15:06 > 0:15:08You don't realise how distracted you are.

0:15:08 > 0:15:10- You didn't see us parked there. - No, I didn't!

0:15:10 > 0:15:12- Exactly, cos you were on the phone. - Right.

0:15:12 > 0:15:16So Lisa is hit with a £100 fine and three points,

0:15:16 > 0:15:19but has she learned her lesson?

0:15:19 > 0:15:22It's taught me to turn the phone off when I'm in the car, that's all.

0:15:29 > 0:15:33Later, the cardiac team race to save Ted's life.

0:15:39 > 0:15:43A pensioner gets in a pickle over her paperwork.

0:15:43 > 0:15:46Certificate of motor insurance, there you are.

0:15:46 > 0:15:47OK, let's have a look at it.

0:15:47 > 0:15:50That's for a Ford Fiesta, you've got a Ford Escort.

0:15:52 > 0:15:54First, it's paramedics to the rescue

0:15:54 > 0:15:57as a Dumfries driver runs out of breath.

0:15:57 > 0:16:02Shaking, just my whole body is shaking.

0:16:02 > 0:16:04Just a horrible, horrible feeling.

0:16:13 > 0:16:18Dumfries and Galloway, a population of 148,000

0:16:18 > 0:16:22scattered across 2,500 square miles of farmland and forests.

0:16:24 > 0:16:26Just under half of all its towns and villages

0:16:26 > 0:16:28are classed as remote and rural,

0:16:28 > 0:16:31small communities where everybody knows everybody.

0:16:32 > 0:16:34When you're a rural paramedic, sooner or later

0:16:34 > 0:16:37you are going to find yourself patching up somebody you know.

0:16:41 > 0:16:44Today, paramedics Cormac O'Neil and Karen Richardson

0:16:44 > 0:16:47are responding to an emergency call from the local cops.

0:16:49 > 0:16:51A man has been found by the side of the road.

0:16:51 > 0:16:53He's struggling to breathe.

0:16:54 > 0:16:56The crew hit the blue lights

0:16:56 > 0:16:58and head seven miles north of Lockerbie

0:16:58 > 0:17:00to the village of Johnstonebridge.

0:17:01 > 0:17:04The man is with cops after flagging them down for help,

0:17:04 > 0:17:08but Cormac and Karen are struggling to find him or the police.

0:17:19 > 0:17:21..fitting the description. Over.

0:17:24 > 0:17:25Eventually they find him.

0:17:25 > 0:17:29For local lass Karen, it's a shock to see a familiar face.

0:17:36 > 0:17:39As paramedic team leader, Cormac's first on the scene to help.

0:17:41 > 0:17:4432-year-old local lad Euan had been driving

0:17:44 > 0:17:48when he suddenly felt ill and had to pull off the motorway.

0:17:48 > 0:17:50That's what's gone on, we just really need to

0:17:50 > 0:17:53control the breathing. It will pass. It will pass.

0:17:53 > 0:17:56You've no chest complaints like asthma or anything, have you?

0:17:56 > 0:17:59- No, I used to have asthma, but... - Aye, you are too good a colour

0:17:59 > 0:18:02for there to be much wrong. I think you're actually breathing too well.

0:18:02 > 0:18:06Cormac quickly sees Euan's life isn't in danger,

0:18:06 > 0:18:09but it might not feel like that for poor Euan.

0:18:10 > 0:18:14He's having a panic attack and is struggling to control his breathing.

0:18:14 > 0:18:17So, under any sort of stress lately?

0:18:17 > 0:18:20No, just working long hours, that's all.

0:18:21 > 0:18:25It's the pins and needles and tightness in my chest

0:18:25 > 0:18:28- that is making me panic. - It's exactly what it is.

0:18:28 > 0:18:29It's exactly what it is.

0:18:29 > 0:18:32- I had to stop three times on the motorway.- That's exactly what it is,

0:18:32 > 0:18:35it's just controlling the breathing is the key to this.

0:18:35 > 0:18:38Did your hands tighten up into like a spasm sort of thing?

0:18:38 > 0:18:42No, just...shaking, just my whole body was shaking.

0:18:45 > 0:18:47Just a horrible, horrible feeling.

0:18:47 > 0:18:51That's just a sign of a panic attack, is the tingling in the fingers.

0:18:51 > 0:18:55Don't normally see it in the toes, like, but certainly in the hands.

0:18:55 > 0:18:59When we arrived, we very quickly established that he was

0:18:59 > 0:19:01suffering from a panic attack.

0:19:01 > 0:19:05Obviously, it was something which had actually built on him

0:19:05 > 0:19:07for the previous hour, hour and a half,

0:19:07 > 0:19:10he wasn't actually able to control his own breathing.

0:19:10 > 0:19:13Panic attacks are not life-threatening,

0:19:13 > 0:19:15but can be pretty traumatic,

0:19:15 > 0:19:18often coming out of the blue and difficult to control.

0:19:20 > 0:19:22Cormac's confident Euan's in no danger,

0:19:22 > 0:19:24but he's keen to give him a quick check over.

0:19:26 > 0:19:29Your blood pressure's raised a bit, but as you've gone through

0:19:29 > 0:19:33a stressful experience, you'd expect that to be slightly raised, OK?

0:19:34 > 0:19:37Oxygen saturation, because you have been hyperventilating

0:19:37 > 0:19:40is bound to be very high, 99%. Heart rate's normal.

0:19:40 > 0:19:43I just wanted to check that.

0:19:43 > 0:19:46How are you feeling right now, is the tingling still there?

0:19:46 > 0:19:51- Yeah, it is.- Is it getting less? - It comes and goes.

0:19:53 > 0:19:54Do you smoke, Euan?

0:19:54 > 0:19:57Yeah, but I've not had any on the way down the road.

0:19:59 > 0:20:02Euan's still not feeling 100%,

0:20:02 > 0:20:05so Cormac goes for a tried and tested remedy - the paper bag.

0:20:07 > 0:20:10Breathe in, I want to see the bag open and close. That's it.

0:20:11 > 0:20:14This may take a few minutes to work, OK?

0:20:15 > 0:20:17Notice any difference at all in your fingers now?

0:20:18 > 0:20:21- A wee bit. I'm starting to feel dizzy.- What's that?

0:20:21 > 0:20:24- I'm starting to feel dizzy. - You feel dizzy now?- A wee bit,

0:20:24 > 0:20:27just still feel like I've got a tight chest.

0:20:27 > 0:20:29That will resolve, it will resolve.

0:20:30 > 0:20:33Euan's breathless feeling is caused by breathing too fast

0:20:33 > 0:20:36and putting too much oxygen in his bloodstream.

0:20:36 > 0:20:38Breathing in and out of a paper bag

0:20:38 > 0:20:41means he's breathing in carbon dioxide,

0:20:41 > 0:20:45which should balance out the oxygen levels and make him feel better.

0:20:45 > 0:20:49It's a bit of a downward spiral, panic sets in, you hyperventilate,

0:20:49 > 0:20:52tightness in the chest, feel like you are going to pass out,

0:20:52 > 0:20:53some folk actually do.

0:20:53 > 0:20:57It's a pretty effective, albeit crude, way of sorting it.

0:20:57 > 0:20:58It does work.

0:20:59 > 0:21:01Take as long as you need to resolve.

0:21:03 > 0:21:05And the bag is doing the trick.

0:21:06 > 0:21:11- I've still got a wee tingling there, but it's nothing...- Is it tingling?

0:21:11 > 0:21:12Just a wee tingle there,

0:21:12 > 0:21:15but I don't know if it's cos I've been sitting on my hands.

0:21:15 > 0:21:19With his breathing under control, Euan's starting to feel much better.

0:21:19 > 0:21:21This is just to state that you're not coming into hospital with us

0:21:21 > 0:21:25and you are happy with advice we've given you, OK?

0:21:25 > 0:21:27In this case, despite all the wonderful kit

0:21:27 > 0:21:29we have in the back of the ambulance,

0:21:29 > 0:21:32a paper bag did the trick. We just got him to re-breathe into that,

0:21:32 > 0:21:36keeping a pretty close eye on him and it did resolve

0:21:36 > 0:21:38after 20, 25 minutes, whatever,

0:21:38 > 0:21:41and he didn't need to travel to hospital.

0:21:41 > 0:21:44Don't want to keep this as a souvenir, no?

0:21:44 > 0:21:46No. I might buy myself a set!

0:21:48 > 0:21:50Basically, all this is saying, Euan,

0:21:50 > 0:21:53if it happens again or if you feel it coming on,

0:21:53 > 0:21:55if you can just try and calm down,

0:21:55 > 0:21:57try and regulate your breathing.

0:21:57 > 0:21:58If available, get a paper bag,

0:21:58 > 0:22:02just do exactly as you were doing there and just breathe it away.

0:22:02 > 0:22:03OK?

0:22:03 > 0:22:07Thanks to Karen and Cormac's bag of tricks,

0:22:07 > 0:22:09Euan's now well enough to head home.

0:22:10 > 0:22:13I was just coming back from Glasgow, just finished work,

0:22:13 > 0:22:14and when I was coming down the motorway

0:22:14 > 0:22:16I started to feel a bit sick and light-headed

0:22:16 > 0:22:18and I started to get pins and needles.

0:22:18 > 0:22:22So I pulled over four times and then I pulled off the motorway

0:22:22 > 0:22:23and I was just heading to Lockerbie

0:22:23 > 0:22:25and then I started to get the feeling again

0:22:25 > 0:22:27and I thought I was going to pass out or faint

0:22:27 > 0:22:29so I pulled over and phoned an ambulance.

0:22:29 > 0:22:34I was just panicking a bit and I just felt light-headed

0:22:34 > 0:22:36and the ambulance crew sorted me out

0:22:36 > 0:22:38and helped me start my breathing again.

0:22:38 > 0:22:41So I think I was just heavy breathing and I feel a lot better,

0:22:41 > 0:22:44just a wee bit peace of mind

0:22:44 > 0:22:46after the ambulance people have told me that I'm OK.

0:22:54 > 0:22:56Back in Cornwall, the Air Ambulance team

0:22:56 > 0:23:00are racing to a man who has collapsed in a supermarket car park.

0:23:00 > 0:23:01There's ASDA.

0:23:05 > 0:23:0765-year-old Ted was found by his wife,

0:23:07 > 0:23:09slumped at the wheel of their car.

0:23:09 > 0:23:12He's suffering a massive heart attack.

0:23:12 > 0:23:14His life hangs in the balance.

0:23:16 > 0:23:20Road paramedics are doing everything they can for him in the ambulance.

0:23:22 > 0:23:24Every single minute is agony for Ted.

0:23:27 > 0:23:29Ted, I'm just going to pop some of this spray

0:23:29 > 0:23:33under your tongue, my love, all right? That's it.

0:23:33 > 0:23:36The nitro-glycerine spray should help his chest pain.

0:23:37 > 0:23:40- Ted?- Hello, Ted, my name is Ben.

0:23:40 > 0:23:42You may have just heard the helicopter arrive,

0:23:42 > 0:23:45we just came in and landed right next to where you are,

0:23:45 > 0:23:47and we're going to pop you off down to Treliske.

0:23:50 > 0:23:52Ted, has that made any difference to the pain?

0:23:56 > 0:23:58All right, so we're ready to go.

0:23:58 > 0:24:01The team work quickly to prepare Ted for transfer

0:24:01 > 0:24:06to the Coronary Care Unit or CCU at Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske.

0:24:06 > 0:24:08This chap is having a heart attack

0:24:08 > 0:24:10and we need to get him in fairly quickly,

0:24:10 > 0:24:14so hopefully Treliske are actually awaiting our arrival,

0:24:14 > 0:24:16so we should be there within about eight or nine minutes.

0:24:16 > 0:24:19But it's important that we get him in very quickly.

0:24:23 > 0:24:25Is everybody happy to do a lift across

0:24:25 > 0:24:27onto the stretcher by just using the sheets?

0:24:29 > 0:24:31It's a multi-team effort

0:24:31 > 0:24:34from the aircrew and two road ambulance crews.

0:24:42 > 0:24:45Now Mark can focus on easing Ted's pain.

0:25:07 > 0:25:10Ted? You haven't?

0:25:10 > 0:25:13Can you just nod or shake your head?

0:25:13 > 0:25:15Have you had any paracetamol today? No?

0:25:15 > 0:25:18OK, we're going to give you some paracetamol

0:25:18 > 0:25:21through the little tube in your arm, in the cannula.

0:25:21 > 0:25:23Have you any problems with paracetamol,

0:25:23 > 0:25:25do you normally take it?

0:25:26 > 0:25:29Ted? Just shake or nod or your head. You normally take it.

0:25:29 > 0:25:32We're only about six or seven minutes to the hospital

0:25:32 > 0:25:34and we are going to get you sorted out

0:25:34 > 0:25:36and we'll give you something for this pain.

0:25:39 > 0:25:44It's likely Ted's heart attack is caused by a blocked artery.

0:25:44 > 0:25:47This blockage is causing this pain, the blockage in his heart,

0:25:47 > 0:25:48in his coronary artery.

0:25:50 > 0:25:55They'll be able to open the coronary artery up in Treliske, in CCU,

0:25:55 > 0:25:58and that is predominantly what we want to get done

0:25:58 > 0:26:00and fairly quickly.

0:26:04 > 0:26:07In just nine minutes, the Helimed arrives at Treliske.

0:26:10 > 0:26:15Ted, how are we doing? We're at hospital now.

0:26:18 > 0:26:21And it's quickly into the Coronary Care Unit.

0:26:36 > 0:26:39Mark and Ben transfer Ted to the CCU team.

0:26:41 > 0:26:43How's the pain now, has it come down at all?

0:26:43 > 0:26:45A little bit.

0:26:48 > 0:26:51What we want to do is unblock that coronary artery

0:26:51 > 0:26:53and get the muscle reperfused again

0:26:53 > 0:26:55and get the oxygen back to that muscle.

0:26:55 > 0:26:57What the guys in CCU are going to do

0:26:57 > 0:26:59is put a little tube in, put a stent in,

0:26:59 > 0:27:02so we can bypass that little blockage

0:27:02 > 0:27:05and hopefully get his heart working again.

0:27:05 > 0:27:07Time is of the essence, it needs to be done as soon as we can,

0:27:07 > 0:27:10hence why we have flown him in.

0:27:10 > 0:27:13Just 50 minutes after the Helimed team reach Ted,

0:27:13 > 0:27:15he's on the operating table.

0:27:15 > 0:27:19Everything rests on finding and clearing that blocked artery quickly.

0:27:19 > 0:27:22Not only could it save Ted's life right now,

0:27:22 > 0:27:24it'll give him a fighting chance

0:27:24 > 0:27:26of making a good recovery in the long-term.

0:27:36 > 0:27:39Back in Wales, PCs Gareth and Andy

0:27:39 > 0:27:42have been busy booking reckless road users

0:27:42 > 0:27:43in the village of Bwlch.

0:27:45 > 0:27:49Now they're in Brecon, looking for dodgy motors.

0:27:49 > 0:27:51They're using ANPR,

0:27:51 > 0:27:53or Automatic Number Plate Recognition.

0:27:54 > 0:27:58RADIO: 'MOT in order, insurance showing as not held.'

0:27:58 > 0:27:59And it's just snagged someone.

0:28:01 > 0:28:04Hello, all right? Could you just pull up here for us a minute?

0:28:04 > 0:28:05I want to have a chat to you.

0:28:05 > 0:28:08- We're the police, we are, we're in an unmarked car.- Sorry!

0:28:09 > 0:28:1273-year-old Anne finds a safe place to pull over.

0:28:15 > 0:28:17The reason we've stopped you today,

0:28:17 > 0:28:20your car has shown up as having no insurance on it, OK?

0:28:20 > 0:28:23My vehicle has read the number plate

0:28:23 > 0:28:24and it says there's no insurance on it.

0:28:24 > 0:28:26We've done a check on the database

0:28:26 > 0:28:28and that also says there's no insurance on the vehicle.

0:28:31 > 0:28:32Do you think you've got insurance?

0:28:34 > 0:28:35Where do you live?

0:28:35 > 0:28:37Opposite the rugby club, just down the road here.

0:28:37 > 0:28:40All right, I'll follow you down there.

0:28:40 > 0:28:42You've got the certificate back there, have you?

0:28:45 > 0:28:47Gareth decides to head back to Anne's house

0:28:47 > 0:28:48to find her insurance documents.

0:28:51 > 0:28:53- You jump on that if you want. - You sure?

0:28:53 > 0:28:56Yeah, yeah, don't worry about us.

0:28:56 > 0:28:57I get very puffed out...

0:28:57 > 0:28:59Yeah, you go up on that, we'll follow you up now.

0:29:00 > 0:29:02Send it back down and we'll use it.

0:29:02 > 0:29:07Whatever you do, don't smoke, cos in your old age it catches up with you.

0:29:08 > 0:29:10Don't get old.

0:29:10 > 0:29:11THEY LAUGH

0:29:15 > 0:29:18So, you haven't had any letters or anything like that

0:29:18 > 0:29:19from your insurance company recently?

0:29:19 > 0:29:24No. I've had the confirmation letter through but...

0:29:24 > 0:29:26It's here somewhere.

0:29:29 > 0:29:32Certificate of Motor Insurance, there you are.

0:29:32 > 0:29:36- OK, can I have a look at it? - To the 25th of May, 2014.- Yeah.

0:29:36 > 0:29:38Everything seems to be in order

0:29:38 > 0:29:41but ever-thorough Gareth double checks her number plate.

0:29:41 > 0:29:479-6-4. This here now is R964, and it's for a Ford Fiesta.

0:29:47 > 0:29:50Oops! Anne's got her reg number and model type wrong.

0:29:50 > 0:29:52- Ford Escort.- I've got a Ford Fiesta.

0:29:52 > 0:29:57- No, that's an Escort.- Is it? - That's an Escort. Right.

0:29:57 > 0:30:02Basically, you're insured to drive a Ford Fiesta, which is R964.

0:30:03 > 0:30:07- This is probably what the problem is. - So, what happens now?- Right.

0:30:07 > 0:30:11I need to ring your company, and see, how they're going to play it. Right.

0:30:11 > 0:30:13Fingers crossed they're open on a Sunday.

0:30:17 > 0:30:21Right, they're open at 10.00, 20 minutes' time.

0:30:23 > 0:30:24Do you want to stop for a cup of coffee?

0:30:24 > 0:30:27So, it's a free coffee morning for the local bobbies,

0:30:27 > 0:30:31but it could turn out to be an expensive cuppa for poor Anne.

0:30:32 > 0:30:34She is not insured to drive that car.

0:30:34 > 0:30:37However, if the error is on the part of the insurance company,

0:30:37 > 0:30:41they may honour it and say, "No, we'll say she's insured and amend the paperwork."

0:30:41 > 0:30:44If they say it's her fault, they will probably turn round and say

0:30:44 > 0:30:47she's not insured. In which case, we'll have to seize the vehicle.

0:30:47 > 0:30:51Which could mean 150 quid on top of a £300 fine

0:30:51 > 0:30:54and six points on her licence.

0:30:54 > 0:30:57The last thing Gareth wants is to take Anne's car.

0:30:58 > 0:31:02If they do say you are not insured, you are at home,

0:31:02 > 0:31:04what I will say, I'll use my discretion.

0:31:04 > 0:31:07If you can get insurance today in front of us with a company

0:31:07 > 0:31:11or even with them, just ring them, and change the details over.

0:31:11 > 0:31:14I stopped a vehicle this morning showing as having no insurance on it.

0:31:14 > 0:31:17She's insured to drive a Ford Fiesta with a very similar

0:31:17 > 0:31:20index to the car that she has actually got, which is a Ford Escort.

0:31:20 > 0:31:22Would you cover her or not?

0:31:22 > 0:31:26Gareth is put on hold, and the waiting continues.

0:31:26 > 0:31:30If Anne can't get insurance, losing the car will be a big blow.

0:31:31 > 0:31:35Well, I can't walk very far, I get very breathless.

0:31:35 > 0:31:38I mean, I've got a walker at the foot of the stairs I could use,

0:31:38 > 0:31:40but not on a regular basis.

0:31:40 > 0:31:43So, basically, I wouldn't be confined to the house

0:31:43 > 0:31:46but it would make things very difficult.

0:31:48 > 0:31:51And things get a little bit awkward for local boy Gareth.

0:31:51 > 0:31:53Are you related to Graham?

0:31:53 > 0:31:57- Yeah.- Son?- Yeah. - God, I've known him for years.

0:31:57 > 0:32:00Wyatt, he used to be called, Wyatt Earp.

0:32:00 > 0:32:02Hello? That's OK.

0:32:02 > 0:32:06Can you swap the details over with immediate effect? Right.

0:32:06 > 0:32:08She'll have a chat with you now.

0:32:08 > 0:32:11Can you do it for me now on this phone?

0:32:11 > 0:32:15Anne can swap her policy which means the car won't be seized,

0:32:15 > 0:32:18but there's no let off on the insurance offence.

0:32:19 > 0:32:22Unfortunately for you, when we saw you driving, you weren't insured.

0:32:22 > 0:32:25No insurance is an absolute offence, basically.

0:32:25 > 0:32:28The punishment for that offence is a fixed-penalty ticket now,

0:32:28 > 0:32:33which is six points on your driving licence and a £300 fine.

0:32:33 > 0:32:35Dear God, I can't afford that.

0:32:36 > 0:32:39I really don't enjoy doing this, cos you are not the sort of person

0:32:39 > 0:32:41I want to be stopping and issuing a £300 fine to.

0:32:41 > 0:32:45- I'll have a word with your dad. - He'll stop my pocket money.

0:32:46 > 0:32:48Here's three copies of the ticket.

0:32:48 > 0:32:50Are you happy with what you have to do?

0:32:50 > 0:32:52- Yep, yep.- It's a horrible job, I'm afraid.

0:32:52 > 0:32:54It is. I'm glad I'm not too far away so I can sort it out.

0:32:54 > 0:32:57In your situation, I'd rather get the car back here.

0:32:57 > 0:33:00You're back safe and sound, not stranded at the side of the road.

0:33:00 > 0:33:02- And I can use the car. - Thank you very much, Mrs Williams,

0:33:02 > 0:33:04sorry to meet you under these circumstances.

0:33:04 > 0:33:07- Oh, no, thank you very much. - Try and enjoy the rest of the day.

0:33:07 > 0:33:09I felt for her, I did feel for her,

0:33:09 > 0:33:12cos she had no intent to not have insurance.

0:33:12 > 0:33:16She was upset, especially at the fine.

0:33:16 > 0:33:18Obviously, she doesn't work any more,

0:33:18 > 0:33:19and it's probably hard to find £300.

0:33:19 > 0:33:21It was just a genuine mistake.

0:33:21 > 0:33:26I would say to anybody, whenever you get your insurance documents back,

0:33:26 > 0:33:29check, make sure that your registration number is yours.

0:33:35 > 0:33:39From four-wheeled woes in Wales, to car troubles north of the border.

0:33:42 > 0:33:47Earlier, Dumfries paramedics Cormac and Karen came to the rescue

0:33:47 > 0:33:50of a driver after he suffered a panic attack.

0:33:52 > 0:33:55Now, it's the turn of paramedics Michael and Paul.

0:33:55 > 0:33:56SIREN WAILS

0:33:56 > 0:33:59They are responding to another incident involving a car,

0:33:59 > 0:34:02but this one hasn't even left the driveway.

0:34:04 > 0:34:05Working a rural patch means the pair

0:34:05 > 0:34:08are used to epic cross-country road trips.

0:34:08 > 0:34:12This time it's an urgent shout, much closer to home,

0:34:12 > 0:34:15just a mile down the road from the ambulance station in Dumfries.

0:34:17 > 0:34:1980-year-old Maurice fell

0:34:19 > 0:34:22after getting out of his car and has banged his head.

0:34:23 > 0:34:27Luckily, passersby were on hand to help and call 999.

0:34:29 > 0:34:33Are you sore anywhere else apart from you head, Maurice?

0:34:43 > 0:34:45Take care.

0:34:49 > 0:34:52Is your back sore?

0:34:52 > 0:34:54- Just your head?- Yeah.- Did you trip?

0:34:58 > 0:35:00- You didn't faint, no?- No.

0:35:09 > 0:35:13Maurice's wife Joyce was getting the washing in from the back garden

0:35:13 > 0:35:15when she heard her hubby shouting.

0:35:16 > 0:35:20He was told to sit still, but he was coming out of the car

0:35:20 > 0:35:24while I went for the washing, and he just went over.

0:35:24 > 0:35:27How, I don't know, but he's no' good on his feet.

0:35:29 > 0:35:31- Any pain on here?- No, no.

0:35:31 > 0:35:34Michael checks for other injuries.

0:35:34 > 0:35:39- Which leg's sore? - Have you got a sore leg, Maurice?

0:35:41 > 0:35:43Your ribs? Sore anywhere?

0:35:43 > 0:35:44No.

0:35:47 > 0:35:50Sore anywhere?

0:35:51 > 0:35:54Just up here, on your ribs? Can we see if we can sit you up?

0:35:58 > 0:36:00Straighten your leg a bit.

0:36:00 > 0:36:03His legs don't work much anyway.

0:36:04 > 0:36:06OK, Maurice, bend yourself up.

0:36:07 > 0:36:08How's that?

0:36:10 > 0:36:11Dizzy?

0:36:18 > 0:36:19You stay on the floor.

0:36:24 > 0:36:27Michael's pretty sure there's no broken bones

0:36:27 > 0:36:29so helps him up onto the trolley.

0:36:29 > 0:36:32See if you can put your foot in the slipper.

0:36:38 > 0:36:42It's clear Maurice is still a bit dazed.

0:36:42 > 0:36:45There's a small laceration on the top of your head.

0:36:45 > 0:36:49It will need stitched and we'll have to glue the laceration on your nose.

0:36:49 > 0:36:51Right.

0:37:00 > 0:37:03The next step is to work out why he fell.

0:37:03 > 0:37:07If he has an underlying illness, it could have caused him to black out.

0:37:07 > 0:37:11I'll take your blood pressure. Are you taking any medications?

0:37:14 > 0:37:19- Joyce.- What they for?

0:37:23 > 0:37:26I'm just going to shine a wee light in your eyes, OK.

0:37:29 > 0:37:34Finally, ever-attentive wife Joyce arrives with her husband's meds.

0:37:36 > 0:37:39- Do you want these? - Pills and potions?

0:37:39 > 0:37:42I think he's just got two left to take some time tonight,

0:37:42 > 0:37:47- that's there. That's the next day. - Don't worry, we'll work it out.

0:37:47 > 0:37:50- But anyway, it's a blue warfarin at 6.00.- Okey-doke.

0:37:50 > 0:37:56Right, I'm coming up in the car, I'll be up in about ten minutes.

0:37:56 > 0:37:59- Eh?- I'll come up in the car.

0:38:01 > 0:38:04Oh, good. You're thinking all right then.

0:38:06 > 0:38:09As far as Joyce is concerned, Maurice is back on form.

0:38:09 > 0:38:12She leaves him in Michael's capable hands.

0:38:12 > 0:38:14And can you remember everything that happened?

0:38:14 > 0:38:17I was in the car, I was just getting out.

0:38:17 > 0:38:19< Michael?

0:38:19 > 0:38:20Yep, cheers.

0:38:20 > 0:38:22Just lost your footing?

0:38:25 > 0:38:28It looks like there's nothing sinister behind Maurice's fall,

0:38:28 > 0:38:31just an unlucky trip for an 80-year-old who's a bit wobbly

0:38:31 > 0:38:33on his legs.

0:38:33 > 0:38:37- Do you know what day it is today? - The date?

0:38:37 > 0:38:41- No, day, what day of the week is it. - Aw, it's Sunday.- That's fine.

0:38:42 > 0:38:48It's a speedy five-minute transfer to Dumfries Hospital for Maurice.

0:38:48 > 0:38:52Where X-rays should confirm it's a relatively minor injury.

0:39:07 > 0:39:09From a minor injury to major medical emergency.

0:39:11 > 0:39:16Back in Cornwall, air paramedics Mark and Ben have airlifted

0:39:16 > 0:39:18Ted to the hospital at Treliske.

0:39:20 > 0:39:24Ted is suffering a massive heart attack and needs an urgent operation

0:39:24 > 0:39:25to unblock an artery.

0:39:25 > 0:39:29Dr Stephen Evans will be leading Ted's surgery.

0:39:29 > 0:39:32This man is having an acute heart attack.

0:39:33 > 0:39:36And we used to treat that by giving very powerful drugs

0:39:36 > 0:39:40to dissolve clots but nowadays we bring them straight to the

0:39:40 > 0:39:43operating room and do a thing called a coronary angiogram -

0:39:43 > 0:39:46we look at the arteries supplying the heart

0:39:46 > 0:39:48and try and find which one is blocked.

0:39:48 > 0:39:50If you don't unblock it within a certain time,

0:39:50 > 0:39:53that part of the heart muscle will die.

0:39:57 > 0:40:01Ted will be awake and conscious throughout the entire procedure.

0:40:01 > 0:40:04First, Stephen injects a dye into his Ted's veins

0:40:04 > 0:40:06to see the flow of blood around his heart.

0:40:13 > 0:40:18Keeping a close eye on Ted's progress is Dr Helen Roberts.

0:40:18 > 0:40:21So, it should continue all the way down here,

0:40:21 > 0:40:25but basically it's blocked here with a clot.

0:40:25 > 0:40:29Stephen's found the blockage and passes a tube up from an artery

0:40:29 > 0:40:31in Ted's leg to suck the clot out.

0:40:31 > 0:40:35Basically, they've sucked the clot out using a special catheter

0:40:35 > 0:40:38and that's opened up the vessel again,

0:40:38 > 0:40:40so there's now flow going to the end of the vessel.

0:40:40 > 0:40:43But poor Ted's artery isn't in good shape.

0:40:43 > 0:40:46You can see the narrowing in the middle.

0:40:46 > 0:40:48The clot's formed and blocked it.

0:40:50 > 0:40:53That is critically narrow, so we need to put a stent in there.

0:40:53 > 0:40:58Stephen puts a stent in the narrow bit of Ted's artery.

0:40:58 > 0:41:01The stent acts like a spring that holds the artery open.

0:41:06 > 0:41:10Where that narrowing was there before, it's now flowing through.

0:41:10 > 0:41:14With the artery widened, Ted's now getting vital blood

0:41:14 > 0:41:17and oxygen to his heart muscle.

0:41:17 > 0:41:21Incredibly, he should feel the benefits immediately.

0:41:21 > 0:41:24How are you doing, Ted? How does your chest feel?

0:41:24 > 0:41:27Better or worse? Better? Good.

0:41:30 > 0:41:32Ted will now need close monitoring.

0:41:32 > 0:41:36There is still a risk that clots could form around his new stent.

0:41:36 > 0:41:40That's the clot we have removed from his right coronary artery

0:41:40 > 0:41:43and we've put a stent in its place.

0:41:43 > 0:41:47It's notable when you walk round to the ward afterwards the time

0:41:47 > 0:41:50that you have taken to do the report, you walk round and they look

0:41:50 > 0:41:51completely different.

0:41:51 > 0:41:54So, when it goes like this, it's very satisfying.

0:41:54 > 0:41:57It looks like the operation has been a success.

0:42:02 > 0:42:05Earlier today, Ted collapsed in a car park.

0:42:05 > 0:42:08It took less than two hours from the first 999 call

0:42:08 > 0:42:11to get him onto the operating table.

0:42:11 > 0:42:14And it's been a multi-team effort.

0:42:14 > 0:42:17From the Cardiac Care Unit to the paramedics on the ground,

0:42:17 > 0:42:20to the Air Ambulance team who played a big part in buying

0:42:20 > 0:42:23Ted the time desperately needed to save his life.

0:42:34 > 0:42:39It's been all-go for the emergency services in rural Britain.

0:42:39 > 0:42:41After his panic attack,

0:42:41 > 0:42:45Euan made a full recovery and drove himself home,

0:42:45 > 0:42:47thanks to the paramedic's simple solution.

0:42:47 > 0:42:52Pensioner Anne's managed to avoid further brushes with the law

0:42:52 > 0:42:56and is now enjoying driving around Brecon in her fully-legal motor.

0:42:58 > 0:43:01And heart attack victim Ted is recovering well

0:43:01 > 0:43:03after three days in hospital.

0:43:03 > 0:43:07Next year he plans to sail around Britain raising money for charities,

0:43:07 > 0:43:10including Cornwall's Air Ambulance.

0:43:12 > 0:43:14And you thought it was quiet in the countryside.