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The ambulance service for Nottinghamshire has apologised after a woman who was "screaming in pain" with a life-threatening hernia had to be rushed to hospital by her own family because paramedics were busy with other calls.Shirley Smith's husband Keith dialled 999 when his wife was in agony and unable to move expecting to receive help – but was told her condition was not serious enough to merit sending an ambulance.Sixty-three-year-old Mr Smith, who himself suffers with a serious