WINCHAM Parish Council is considering the possibility of installing life-saving equipment in a redundant phone box in the village.
The council was given a defibrillator by Cheshire West and Chester Council under the council’s member budgets scheme, and is seeking an appropriate location for the equipment.
More than 80 defibrillators are believed to have been fitted into adopted red phone boxes across the country.
One of the reasons the parish council is considering the phone box to house the defibrillator is that the equipment requires an electrical supply.
A number of local people have been trained to use the equipment, which can be used when someone has suffered a cardiac arrest, and the council is to contact BT over the possibility of using the phone box.
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