A life-saving defibrillator will be placed in a popular Marlow park which anyone can use to provide emergency medical treatment.

The £2,500 piece of equipment – which has been funded by The Rotary Club of Marlow Thames and The Round Table – will be installed next to Costa in Higginson Park.

Marlow follows in the footsteps of Wooburn Green and Bourne End which both had defibrillators installed in busy spots in 2014.

The council hopes it will provide and extra safety measure with a number of events in the town’s calendar drawing thousands to the area.

Cllr Suzanne Brown said: “It is a precautionary measure. We are all living longer and it’s thanks to better medical provision.

“There is one in the leisure centre on Pound Lane but nobody knows it’s there. This is a community defibrillator that anyone can use.”

The instructions on the front of the equipment advise the person to dial 999, and once through a medical professional will provide them with a code to access the box and talk them through how to use it.

A second defibrillator for the High Street is also in the pipeline, which will be funded by the Waitrose green token scheme.

According to the British Heart Foundation there are over 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests every year.

And for every minute that passes without CPR and defibrillation the chance of survival is reduced by 10 percent.