A ST JOHN Ambulance first aid trainer from Hols­worthy is asking people in West Devon and North Cornwall to help almost 25,000 adults and children learn how to be the difference between a life lost and a life saved, in 2014.

Geoff Forster has been a St John Ambulance trainer for 18 years and shown several thousand people how to administer first aid, over that period.

He and his colleagues have set themselves the target of training 6,600 members of the public and 18,000 schoolchildren in learn life saving skills, in the South West, next year.

And the nation's leading first aid charity urgently needs more trainers to teach people vital life saving skills.

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