PUB regulars will be testing their grey matter to raise enough money for a life-saving heart defibrillator.

Lona Fedorowicz, 48, landlady of the Prince of Wales in Church Way, Iffley, wants to install it on the front of the pub after her 92-year-old father Kazimierz had a heart attack.

She said: “Thankfully his life was saved by paramedics, but ever since I have wanted to do something to help other heart attack sufferers.

“Installing a defib machine here at the pub, which the whole community can access, seems like a great idea and as soon as I mentioned it, our regulars welcomed the chance to make it happen.”

Mother-of-one Ms Fedorowicz said: “One of our customers, Paul Carroll, also suffers from a heart condition and since meeting him it has struck me how important a resource a defib could be, not just for our customers, but also people living around here, the nearby school – everybody.”

Defibrillators deliver electric pulses that can ‘jump start’ a heart in some cases of cardiac arrest.

Statistics show more than 75,000 lives per year in the UK could be saved by the immediate availability of a heart defibrillator for a person in cardiac arrest.

Early defibrillation can increase chances of survival from five per cent to more than 50 per cent.

Ms Fedorowicz said the pub holds a quiz every week and is hoping to raise £40 each time. The target is to collect £1,000 for a defibrillator by next spring.

The pub will also host awareness evenings and talks in the coming months and there will be collection tins on the bar.