St John Ambulance has launched its summer first aid awareness campaign after new research reveals that more than half of adults surveyed in the North West (53%)* (55% nationally) do not know the difference between life-threatening heat stroke, which requires a 999 call, and heat exhaustion, which can be treated by cooling and hydrating a patient.[1]

Food banks across the Lancaster District are seeing a ‘drastic drop’ in food donations despite record numbers of people in need.