SOME of the emergency defibrillators installed in Keighley parish as part of a potentially live-saving scheme have already been used.

Keighley town councillor Ian Dermondy, who launched the scheme to have the publicly useable defibrillators located around Keighley parish, has updated fellow councillors on the initiative just over one year after the five devices were put in place.

He said the defibrillator mounted outside Keighley Civic Centre, in North Street, was activated once in March 2016 and again in June 2016, while the device at Keighley Market Hall was used once in December last year.

The three other defibrillators – outside the Markazi Jamia Mosque in Emily Street, at Keighley Railway Station and at Morton Institute – have still to be used.

This scheme has been funded by Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group, with training and support provided by the ambulance service.

Cllr Dermondy added that he would continue working to make Keighley a safer place for people who suffer cardiac arrests.

Speaking after the latest town council meeting he said: "I'd love for the defibrillators not to have to be used at all, but they are there to try and save people's lives.

"I don't know if their three deployments last year were successful, and whether someone was saved, as it's not possible to get that information.

"But I'm glad people now have access to the defibrillators for when they're really needed."