Yorkshire school pupils get life-saving CPR lesson

Children have been getting life-saving lessons in more than 100 schools across Yorkshire.

Hundreds of volunteers have been helping train them in a life-saving technique known as Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, or CPR.

It is part of a campaign set up by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service.

Chris Solomons of Yorkshire Ambulance Service, himself a survivor of a cardiac arrest in 2010, said: "It's very important, we need to get children taught CPR after all they might need to save a relative of theirs."

BBC Look North went to Silcoates school in Wakefield, one of those taking part.

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