I spotted this story when it came out, and immediately noticed that there was no mention made of the type of 999 call that was made. Can I be really cynical and presume that it therefore was not the type of call where it would really have mattered if the crew had taken an extra 20 minutes and actually finished eating? Another presumption - if the crew do happen to be reinstated, what are the odds that the Beeb (or any of our other glorious news-reporters) will not bother to tell anyone. But they will point to this news story next time they want to say that our ambulance service should not be allowed their basic human right to food! (Just as this story pointed to the one of the teenager that died - would keen eyes have spotted the phrase "there is no suggestion he would have survived if the nearer crew had attended", or would they just see "paramedics eating = people dying"?