AMBULANCE response times in Mid Devon are improving, according to a health trust.

Recent figures show West Country Ambulance Services Trust staff now reach 70 per cent of Mid Devon patients in life-threatening situations within the target eight minutes.

That figure is up on results from earlier in the year, and is higher than the average for the whole of the Devon, Cornwall and Somerset.

The trust's control centre, where 999 calls are co-ordinated, is at the Business Park in Tiverton.