JUST one homeowner is needed to help a village near Oxford get a full complement of life-saving defibrillators.

Kennington Parish Council needs a total of four publicly-accessible defibs to ensure the area is fully covered.

So far they have secured three for the neighbourhood, but need to be able to place one more in the Poplar Grove or Meadow View area, in order to have a defibrillator in each part of the village.

Council clerk Anne Feather said: “We would be very grateful if anyone could volunteer because that would cover the whole village.”

The cabinet will need to be plugged into an electricity supply to keep it warm all year-round, but the council will foot the £40-a-year bill for that.

The defib cabinet would have to be installed in a visible pleace South Central Ambulance Service divisional responder manager Dick Tracey is leading a campaign, backed by the Oxford Mail, to install 200 more across the county.

He wants a total of 320 public access defibrillators so no one in Oxfordshire is more than 10 minutes from one.

He gave a presentation to Kennington Parish Council and told them they should ideally have four in the village.

As reported in the Oxford Mail on Tuesday, Mr Tracey revealed his campaign is on target, with 160 installed so far and another 24 on the way.

Chairman Colin Charlett said: “We are really pleased we will have got three in a year because they could save a life.

“The only problem we have now is identifying a place to put the last one.”

After installing a first unit at the village centre in Kennington Road in July, the council has just ordered two more.

The one for the Poplar Grove or Meadow View area is yet to be bought.

One of the defibrillators on order will be installed on the front of Kirlena House care home in Kennington Road and the other outside the village’s laundrette in Playfield Road.

The appliances can be used by anyone and provide recorded instruction to shock a heart back into rhythm before paramedics arrive.

The council will also be running classes teaching people how to use the equipment and about CPR.

These will be held on Saturday mornings in January and February, yet to be decided.

Mr Tracey, 58, who lives near Witney, said: “This is excellent news.

“For somewhere like Kennington, which is quite a long village, it makes absolute sense to have more than one.

“Clearly, the parish council is considering all the residents and I am so pleased they have embraced the project.”

Defibrillators cost about £1,600 each.