'We're incredibly proud': Heroic Telford teens sprang into action after woman collapsed in supermarket

Two quick-thinking Telford teens who sprang into action during a medical emergency in a supermarket have been commended for their "mature" response in a "scary" situation.

Charlton School pupils Ocean Williams and Keegan Hopkins, both 16, rallied to help after a woman fell, hit her head and had a seizure in Iceland in Wellington town centre on Wednesday last week.

Ocean immediately phoned 999 and Keegan rushed to grab a defibrillator and medical equipment from an off-duty nurse's car.

Describing the drama, Ocean said: "An elderly woman in Iceland had a fall and started having a seizure. She'd smacked her head off a metal pole.

"Within seconds of her falling I was on the phone to paramedics."

Keegan added: "I didn't know until I've walked in and I've seen her body shaking. I noticed straight away she was having a seizure. My stepmum has epilepsy so I managed to catch the signs of it.

"Then a nurse came along. She helped us quite a bit. She had a box in the back of her car with different observation machines. She gave me her car keys and said 'can you run up to my car and quickly grab the medical box?' She gave me the code for the defibrillator."

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