Woman arrested over abusive ‘move your van’ note on ambulance

Staffordshire Police detained 26-year-old after reading about incident on Twitter

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Staffordshire Police have arrested a 26-year-old woman who left an abusive note on an ambulance dealing with a 999 call.

The note read: “If this van is for anyone but Number 14 then you have no right to be parked here. I couldn’t give a s**t if the whole street collapsed. Now move your van from outside my house.”

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