A garage worker who suffered a heart attack has been reunited with paramedics who used a new resuscitation technique to save his life.

Graham Coomber, 54, from Tonbridge, had just started work at the garage in Sussex, last July when he suffered a massive heart attack.

Paramedics Des Lacey and Martin Pitchers who work for South East Coast Ambulance Service, used a procedure called Protocol C to revive him.

It involves delaying the use of a defibrillator to deliver a life-saving shock until after a period of effective chest compressions.

This is instead of giving an electrical shock first then carrying out chest compressions.

Last week Mr Coomber came face-to-face with his rescuers.

He said: "The doctors said that I should be brain damaged and be in a wheelchair. The fact that I am not is because of the ambulance service.

"I don’t know what they did but it saved my life and for that I will be forever grateful."