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If you've been unlucky enough to require a trip to hospital in an ambulance, you may have been caught up by delays once you're delivered to A and E. In the wake of continued problems at the unit - crisis talks are being held later to find a way of tackling long delays encountered daily by ambulance crews at Leicester's busy Accident and Emergency Department. Paramedics working for East Midlands Ambulance Service - or EMAS - say they're increasingly frustrated by being forced to wait for hours before being able to hand over patients to doctors at the city's Royal Infirmary. Not only are those long waits delaying the crews from getting back on the road to answer the next emergency call, but it's feared it's also risking patient safety.
Also, Mothers. Daughters. Rebels.
That's the tagline to a new film out today charting the suffragette movement in Britain in the early 20th Century. It stars Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter and Cary Mulligan, but the roots to this Hollywood epic could arguably traced back to places like Leicestershire. In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst's foundation of the women's social and political union swept across the County and marked the start of a radical new phase in the fight to be allowed to vote. Women here in Leicestershire took to smashing windows and even burning buildings to get their message across.
And, now we've all heard the phrase 'a piece of cake', but one Leicestershire baker is putting that to the test in her bid to raise awareness of the plight of endangered animals. Zoe Fox has set up an international group of fellow bakers who sculpt cakes into the shapes of endangered animals like tigers and chimps!