Pub to become a centre for life-saving
A pub is set to become the centre of life-saving heroics after raising more than £1,000 to buy emergency medical equipment.
The Walnut Tree pub, in East Farleigh, Kent, is now a "defibrillator station" for the south east of Maidstone.
Paramedics and "community first responders" will be able to use the equipment in an emergency.
Customers at the Shepherd Neame pub, run by Don and Glynis Cross, raised £1,100 to buy the equipment through bar collections and quiz nights.
Glynis, who is already a St John's Ambulance first-aider, is having special training in using the defibrillator and has applied to become a community first responder.
"I would like to help people in the area, as well as feeling I could deal with emergencies in and around the pub," she said.
"If anything happened, I could be there two minutes before an ambulance and that can make all the difference."
