Great Western Ambulance Service (GWAS) could merge with the South Western Ambulance service.

If agreed, the area covered by the merged service would stretch from the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire down to the Isles of Scilly.

The South Western service, which covers Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset, is the only one to have expressed an interest in partnering GWAS, England's smallest ambulance service.

But sceptical North Wiltshire MP James Gray has expressed concerns about the potential partnership.

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