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Deliveries of 20,000 defibrillators to all state schools in England without a device have begun today.

Last year, the government committed to supplying schools with the life-saving equipment.

It follows a campaign from the Oliver King Foundation and its founder Mark King, who lost his 12-year-old son to cardiac arrest while swimming at school in 2011.

The government wants the 20,000 defibrillators to be distributed to 18,000 state schools by the end of this academic year.

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