THIS is the desperate 999 call a friend made to report a man missing before he was found dead, naked and mutilated in a ...

South Central Ambulance Service is urging the public to call 999 only for life-threatening emergencies, after a 20 per cent surge in emergency calls.

Jasmin Kuczynska, 12, and her seven-year-old sister were both found dead at a house in Costessey, Norfolk - East Anglia News Service A police force has referred itself to the watchdog after it failed ...

BT was fined £17.5m in July 2024 for a "catastrophic failure" of its emergency call handling service which led to thousands of 999 calls not being connected. Three was ordered to pay £1.9m in 2017 ...

Police have issued a warning after reports of hoax 999 calls being made from a Blackburn phone box. Officers received “multiple reports” of hoax 999 calls from the New Chapel Street phone box. Police ...

Devon and Cornwall Police is urging the public to only call 999 in a genuine emergency during the Christmas period. The force ...

AMBULANCE crews responded to a rise in 999 calls during the busiest New Year for staff in recent memory. It proved to be a busy start to 2026 for West Midlands Ambulance Service with a 9 per cent rise ...

David Severn, a Sussex Police contact and control officer, said he joined the force as he wanted to "do more" to help people [Hannah Roe / BBC] Emergency call handlers say they "love helping" those in ...

Warwickshire Police has shard some of the most inappropriate 999 calls received by the control room in 2025. The emergency service number is meant for, well emergencies, but some residents obviously ...

The government has announced measures to beef up the resilience of the UK’s 999 emergency call handling system. This comes nine months after communications regulator Ofcom launched an investigation ...

On July 3 2010, Raoul Moat shot and injured his ex-girlfriend, Samantha Stobbart, while killing her new partner, Chris Brown. In the hours after that shocking attack, Moat, 37, would go on to shoot ...

The NHS is warning anyone who takes amlodipine that they should call 999 if they experience a major, serious symptom.