ST JOHN Ambulance is launching its annual awareness month — Save a Life September (SALS) — and holding a free event in Salisbury.

It takes place at Tesco in Southampton Road from 10am to 4pm on September 19 and volunteers from the charity will be demonstrating some simple lifesaving skills.

Comedian and actor Rufus Hound is support the SALS campaign and features in a new comical video as a hapless teacher, whose lack of first aid skills leads to disastrous consequences for his pupils and demonstrates why everyone should learn a lesson for life.

Go to sja.org.uk/savealifeseptember