NORTH Wiltshire MP James Gray has learned during a visit to Tim Skelton, the Acting Chief Executive of the Wiltshire Ambulance Service that the service is actively consulting a merger with the Gloucestershire and Avon Ambulance Services.

Mr Gray said: "I told Tim Skelton that I would be wholly opposed to any such regionalisation of the Ambulance Service.

"Not only would Wiltshire be lost in an amalgamation but it would certainly lead to dominance by Bristol."