More lifesaving equipment for heart attack victims is being introduced into public places in the East Midlands. There are already defibrillators at Leicester railway station, East Midlands Airport, shopping centres and Leicester City's Walkers Stadium.
Now the British Heart Foundation is to receive �6m of lottery cash to buy more machines and train more people in Leicestershire how to use them.
Training responders
Defibrillators are used to restart the heart in the crucial four to five minutes after a heart attack.
In Leicestershire the ambulance service will train people to use the equipment.
There are currently 300 people trained in this role across the East Midlands at 20 different schemes.
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