THE first Air Ambulance in Hertfordshire took to the skies this month after a tremendous fundraising effort from residents across the county. Reporter Michael Pickard went to meet the team that could save your life.

Britons badly injured in the Mumbai terror attacks made an emotional journey home today, and one revealed shocking new details of his ordeal. Harnish Patel, 29, from Putney, was discharged from Mumbai's Jaslok hospital with Dianne and Michael Murphy, and brought back to Britain in an air ambulance.

One person was taken to the hospital by helicopter after a collision Saturday afternoon involving a nonemergency ambulance and at least one other vehicle on Highway 1 near Vandenberg Village.