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Volunteers set up a rest centre yesterday after residents in a Lincolnshire village were caught up in a firearms incident.

Life can be dangerous on the streets – and that’s why the Red Cross is running courses specially designed to help this vulnerable group.

A team of Red Cross ‘first responders’ – who help the emergency services react to medical emergencies – have just celebrated their 3,000th call-out.

The Queen has awarded MBEs to three British Red Cross volunteers with a combined total of 146 years' service.

Volunteers responded in the early hours of 4 November to support a traumatised family of seven after a house fire.

Volunteers worked through all last night (12 October) to help local residents after a fire broke out at an electrical substation in Derbyshire.