Patients face waits of more than an hour for ambulances to respond to potentially life threatening calls in the worst-hit areas in England, shock figures show.
Figures provided by all 10 ambulance trusts in England reveal a "stark postcode lottery", with people in Cornwall suffering from possible strokes or heart attacks waiting for an average of 100 minutes for help.
Patients with life-threatening conditions in some rural areas waited three times longer than those living in cities, the date unearthed by the Liberal Democrats revealed.
