STUDENTS at Reid Kerr College in Paisley have been learning to save lives.

More than 3000 have been trained by experts from the Heartstart UK programme since 1998.

Electro-Technical Services students were the latest to undergo the programme set up by the British Heart Foundation.

Lynn Fyfe, Heartstart UK Trainer and lecturer at Reid Kerr, took the students through the course.

She said: "It's a two hour training programme which teaches simple skills that saves lives while working in an electrical environment."