’Once the problem is diagnosed, we talk the caller through a specific set of instructions until the ambulance arrives.'

An alcoholic who forced a student out of her car and threatened to kill her if she did not hand over the keys has received a four-and-a-half-year sentence for this and a bookies robbery.

Irish fencer Siobhán Byrne won a bronze medal yesterday at the 16th Annual National Collegiate Men's and Women's Fencing Championshiops in Houston, Texas.