Lifesaving equipment has been installed in disused telephone boxes in Marlow.
Cllr Richard Scott, Cllr Roger Wilson, Cllr Suzanne Brown and Bucks County Councillor Cllr Alex Collingwood contributed money from their ward budgets to decommission phone boxes on the corner of Lock Road and Station Road, and the corner of Oaktree Road and Seymour Park Road.
Defibrillators have now been installed in both boxes and they have been restored to their former glory.
Cllr Scott said: “We’re delighted to be involved in this scheme.
“It continues the legacy of the red kiosk and provides our local community with a beneficial and lifesaving function.”
In 2012, the British Coatings Federation (BCF) partnered with BT and the Community HeartBeat Trust in a nationwide scheme to install life-saving defibrillators in rural phone boxes.
Over the next five years, the BCF aims to encourage the UK’s rural communities to install a defibrillator in their local phone box, with the objective of creating a national network of 2,500 defibrillators.
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