In the early days of Cornwall AA we were roasted in the local press because one of the guys on the Seven Stones Lightship had an angina attack and called Ambulance Control to request the AA, knowing that it was a B0105 just like the one he used to get to and from his workplace. Control turned him down because the lightship was in SAR territory and passed it on to CU.
The next day an irate tirade about inflexible ambulance people and stress caused due to winch trip into a SK appeared in the Western Morning News and we had egg all over our face.
That's life I guess.
G.
