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'We're attacked and abused as we try to save lives'

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Summary
Nutrition label

75% Informative

Almost 45,000 assaults were recorded by ambulance services across England over the last five years .

Paramedic Nutan Patel-West said she had been racially abused and had a knife drawn on her.

She narrowly avoided serious injury after a glass ashtray was hurled at her.

The government said there was a " zero -tolerance approach to this type of behaviour".

VR Score

72

Informative language

67

Neutral language

80

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

40

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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