 Until 2013, the emergency control centre for Wiltshire was in the Wiltshire Emergency Services (WES) building in Devizes.Formed on 1 April 2006 by the merger of the Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire ambulance services, the trust had a difficult start, marked by redundancies, closure of its training centre and the threat of ambulance station closures; though in the end, only one ambulance station was closed (Newent, Gloucestershire).This caused strained industrial relations with its recognised union, UNISON, and attacks from the local media.