The only 24-hour defibrillator in St Peter’s has recently been installed at the village hall.

Roger Knight, chairman of St Peter’s Village Hall association, said: “We have been looking at this for quite some time.

“There was previously not a single 24-hour defibrillator in St Peter’s. With that in mind, we thought it would be nice to put one at the front of the village hall.

“Hopefully, it will never be needed. But it is there to serve the community if anyone ever does need it.

“It has been there now for a week or so, so it is still very recent.

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“We are waiting for new, updated signage to be installed with it soon.”

Mr Knight explained that the defibrillator is kept in a locked cabinet with a combination required to open it.

He added: “It is registered with emergency services. If anyone needs it, they should call 999 and then emergency services would give the caller the code to access the defibrillator.

“The defibrillator then tells you what to do, you can use it without being trained.

“We have been looking into this since 2015 so it’s not a new idea.

“We have got local businesses to contribute such as St Peter’s Baptist Church, St Peter’s vets, St Peter’s Micropub, the county and city councils and of course, the St Peter’s village hall association so it has been a real group effort.”

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A charity named London Hearts advised the village hall association on which kind of defibrillator to install and offered it to them at a discounted rate.

Parish Councillor John Renshaw said: “I’m delighted that St Peter’s Village Hall now has a registered defibrillator available for use in an emergency 24 hours a day. 

“In addition there are also two registered defibrillators available at the St Peter’s Tesco superstore nearby, one located at the store’s customer service desk in store and the other at the petrol filling station.

“This makes St Peter’s one of the best provisioned areas of Worcester. 

“The challenge now is to makes sure the rest of the city is well provided for and that all existing defibrillators are registered on the national database so that the emergency services can locate them in an emergency.”