Councillor urges hoax callers to think twice about misusing emergency services
North West Ambulance Service received the second highest number of hoax calls in the last three years
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The A66 between Braithwaite and Bassenthwaite is closed, following the collision this morning (December 31). Emergency services are currently on the scene. Cumbria Police is asking road users to avoid the area while recovery work is carried out. The collision was first reported at 8.06am, and police have said it involved a number of vehicles . A spokesman for North West Ambulance Service said: We were called 08:15 to reports of a multi vehicle RTC. We’ve attended with one ambulance. There do not appear to be any serious injuries at this time, with one driver believed to have sustained minor injuries.
Key stories uncovered by the ECHO in 2020 from secret DWP visit to ice rink mortuary
In a year dominated by coronavirus we ve also revealed concerns over city centre safety and the lost victims of the pandemic
Quarantined coronavirus evacuees were brought to Wirral in February
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NHS staff s kind gesture to desperate patient too scared to stay in hospital
The man was flustered and concerned for his beloved dog
Kieran Lees has been inundated with praise after he took in a worried hospital patient s dog over Christmas (Image: North West Ambulance Service)
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Top 10 information management stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 information management stories of 2020
Share this item with your network: Published: 30 Dec 2020 9:00
The use of data to govern the public sphere and help allay the Covid-19 pandemic were the intertwined information management themes of 2020.
Popular, too, were articles on how to re-think and build business intelligence capabilities in companies beyond the pandemic.
The rise and fall of Dominic Cummings was an arc shot through with the dust particles of data. The prime minister’s former chief adviser was well known as a data enthusiast, who started the year with a quest for “maverick” data scientists and software engineers to join him in a mission to revolutionise Whitehall.