Golfer is staying alive thanks to Vinnie Jones
Alan Linton’s friends remembered the advert, which features former footballer Vinnie Jones urging people to give chest compressions in time to the disco classic Staying Alive.
Mr Lindon, 42, from Fife, collapsed while playing on Charles-ton course, near Colinsburgh. He was playing with Brian Enderson, Michael Rennie and Paul Pinkney, when he took ill.
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Hide AdMr Pinkney, who started CPR using advice from the British Heart Foundation advert, said: “If it hadn’t been for Vinnie Jones you’d have gone ‘yeah, whatever’, but because he was doing it it just sticks in your head.”
Mr Linton said: “I’d like to meet him and shake his hand.”