UPDATE: Patient taken to hospital after air ambulance lands in Eastbourne

Emergency services were called after a person suffered a medical episode in the town centre today.

By The Newsroom

Published 18th Jun 2019, 14:25 BST

The helicopter landed on the Saffrons Sports Ground at around 11.45am today (June 18) and firefighters were also called in to help with an aerial ladder.

A casualty appears to have been taken from a block of flats in Hardwick Road.

A spokesperson at the ambulance service said, “The air ambulance is assisting us at a call to a nearby private address. We wouldn’t comment on the detail of a call to a private address.”

Picture by Dan Jessup.

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