Aled Treharne on January 6th, 2010

A few months ago I walked into my first St John Ambulance evening in Cardiff. Last week I was a member of a 2-man St John crew on an ambulance helping out the Ambulance service on a 12-hour shift on New Year’s Eve. It’s been a very fast and steep learning curve to get here […]

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Aled Treharne on December 23rd, 2009

At around 1700 Monday night I had a text message – contingency plans were in place to assist the ambulance service, could I crew a vehicle? So after work, I grabbed some food and ironed my uniform before de-snowing the car and heading into Llanishen. Once I got out of our village the roads were […]

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Aled Treharne on December 2nd, 2009

Back in October of last year, I applied to join South Wales Police as a special constable. Thigns kinda came to a grinding halt over Christmas when the process stopped. It dragged on for a few months and the rumour I had from friends in the force was that all recruitment was on a hold […]

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