New CPR campaign launched to the tune of 500 miles

A campaign to train half a million Scots in CPR has a very famous soundtrack.

You will probably be hard pushed to find someone who doesn’t know the words to the Proclaimer’s tune 500 miles but, how about using the song to save a life

TV presenter Carole Smilie appears in a new CPR campaign video launched in Glasgow today by the Health Secretary Shona Robison.

She says he should give chest compressions to the famous beat

It is hoped it will save 1,000 lives by 2020.