Once again, patients are waiting for ambulances rather than ambulances waiting for patients.

What is interesting is the reported tone of the Derry Mayor (and I may just be paranoid here), when he says about finding out what the other ambulances in the area were doing,

"Were they on emergency services, were they on emergency duty, were they transferring people and stuff like that," he said.

"I think that is something that needs to be addressed."

Which sounds very much to me like he wants to know if they were on a break, skiving or otherwise not 'working'.

Or it could be very interesting to see if they were dealing with people who were demanding an ambulance for a wart they'd had for the last three weeks. But I doubt that this particular follow-up story would make national news.