Leanne Crawford

Lincoln and Skegness have been named in a list of 22 places set to get life-saving defibrillators installed at their railway stations.

East Midlands Railway (EMR) asked station adopters and local community rail partnerships to put forward locations for the defibrillators, which can greatly improve someone’s chance of survival after a cardiac arrest.

Each defibrillator comes with step-by-step instructions built into the unit which explain how to use it, and the computers inside then analyse people’s heart rhythms to find out whether an electric shock is needed. If required, electrodes then automatically deliver the shock.

Donna Adams, EMR community engagement manager, said: “Each second counts when someone has a cardiac arrest, and with many thousands of people passing through our stations each day, they are ideal places to install a defibrillator.

“We are pleased to be able to contribute to such an important project and bring such vital equipment to communities right across the region we serve.”

According to the British Heart Foundation, for every minute it takes for a defibrillator to reach someone to deliver the shock needed, chances of survival reduce up to 10%.

Other places to benefit from the project include Nottingham, Matlock Bath and Long Eaton.

Grantham’s Holly Humberstone has raised a few Lincolnshire eyebrows after telling the crowd at Radio 1’s Big Weekend she was from “just south of Nottingham”.

The rising star was appearing on the ‘future sounds’ stage on Sunday, May 29, the final day of the BBC’s three-day festival in Coventry.

Her comments came as she was introducing her song ‘London is Lonely’, which examines Holly’s emotions after leaving her family home in Lincolnshire to move to the capital. The 22-year-old’s hit was named as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record back in January – and it certainly went down well with the audience at the Big Weekend.

Holly told the crowd: “I wrote this song two years ago when I’d just moved to London for the first time and I just found London really intimidating.

“I’m from, not that far away from here [Coventry] actually, I’m from just south of Nottingham and I grew up in this tiny little village, it was basically me, my three sisters, my cat, a load of old people and it was so peaceful and then one day I just decided ‘let’s move to London’.”

Holly was born in Grantham but made the move to London just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as her music career started to take off.

Humble Holly told her fans she’d recently been away touring in the USA and that the crowd had given her ‘the best welcome home’, saying she didn’t realise there would be so many people watching her performance.

It comes after Holly won this year’s BRIT Awards Rising Star award, becoming the first Lincolnshire artist to win the honour.

Lincolnshire has been right behind Holly as she’s risen to fame, with the star now is making waves across the globe having recently supported megastar Olivia Rodrigo her tour across the US.

You can watch Holly’s stunning performance at Radio 1’s Big Weekend here. It will be available to stream until June 28.