BILLY Partridge and Angela Eastwood are mobile wardens who work for community interest organisation, Be Independent.

They attend daily emergency calls to assist vulnerable residents, which is praiseworthy in itself, but on Monday, as the pair were returning from a call-out, they spotted a commotion on Skeldergate Bridge. A man had collapsed and was only taking a breath every five seconds.

Without hesitation, Billy and Angela leapt into action and placed a defibrillator on the man's face. It saved his life.

"We didn't really think, we just did what we had to," Angela tells us modestly, adding: "I'm grateful for my training." We know who is really grateful – the man who was so lucky such a competent pair was on the same road.

But the pair thinks we should all be able to do what they did and are calling for first aid training to be made available to everyone. Billy goes further saying every person walking the street should be able to do CPR.

We agree. The procedure is straight forward, remember the adverts telling us to apply pressure in time to the Bee Gee's Stayin' Alive? That's how professionals learn, but they are not always there to assist.

So shouldn't more of us be able to save the life of someone who has stopped breathing? We think so. In the meantime, thank goodness for people like Billy Partridge and Angela Eastwood. We salute you both.