Air ambulance treats people in parts of Warwickshire other ambulances cannot reach

The Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance treated the man, who had sustained a broken ankle on a building siten, and flew him to University Hospital, Coventry.

The man, who is in his 50s, had broken his ankle on the rim of a tractor tyre.

The air ambulance crew took just nine minutes to reach the scene from their base at Coventry Airport at around noon, assessing the injury, giving the man pain relief and splinting his ankle before taking him to hospital.