A WIRRAL builder whose life was saved by his wife after a heart attack will lead his daughter down the aisle later this year.

When Eddie Power collapsed in a car park wife Jan, a nurse at the Spire Murrayfield Hospital in Heswall, went to the rescue.

Jan had been trained in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and managed to revive him.

She broke several of his ribs with the vigorous chest compressions but saved his life.

In July proud Eddie, 57, will give away eldest daughter, Nicola, at St Barnabas' Church in Bromborough.

Those forceful chest compressions in the moments after Eddie collapsed were crucial, according to Trish Trimmer, the Spire Murrayfield Advanced Life Support teacher, a nurse at hospital for the past 27 years.

Eddie, who has had a stent, a small plastic tube, fitted in the affected artery, said: "I can't remember anything about what happened but I know I am extremely lucky and I wouldn’t be here but for Jan.

"It must have been really scary for her and I understand what she has done and that’s down to the professional training that Trish has instilled there."

Eddie and Jan had been to Chester Races the day before and had walked to Eastham Station to pick up their car early the next morning.

Jan said: "Eddie had complained about indigestion that morning but we walked to the car and I got in to drive and he just slumped against the door on the passenger’s side.

“At first I didn’t realise what had happened but I had moved the car out of the parking space and I jumped out and ran round, opened the door and pulled him onto the car park surface.

“It was half past seven in the morning and I was just shouting for help and giving the chest compressions – all I could think of was Trish and the training and that we had to do two minutes without stopping.

“I could imagine Trish standing over me with a stopwatch and I was also thinking that Eddie had to be around to give our daughter away.

“I broke most of his ribs but without it he wouldn’t have survived. The consultant told me that later.”

Trish Trimmer, who trains all the staff at Spire Murrayfield in life support and also provides the same service for local GP surgeries, said: "Eddie pulling through was down to Jan providing immediate basic life support immediately her husband went into cardiac arrest.

"These skills should be more widely taught because more people collapse at home than in hospital.

"If you go into cardiac arrest in the street you are totally dependent on the life-saving skills of the people around you."