Hotelier Tom Bachelor owes his life to a quick-thinking family of holidaymakers and a dedicated air ambulance crew.

Their combined efforts ensured Mr Bachelor, from Middleham, in the Yorkshire Dales, survived after he suffered a heart attack while touring in the Lake District.

His grateful wife, Margaret, has offered a heartfelt thanks to all those whose efforts helped prevent a tragedy.

The Fahy family, from the Castle Vale area of Birmingham - father Paul, wife Susan and daughter Holly - were taking a drive by Coniston Water when they found Mr Bachelor on the roadside, moments after he had suffered the heart attack.

Football coach Mr Fahy, 43, used his first aid training to make Mr Bachelor comfortable and then used 15-year-old Holly's mobile phone to call the emergency services, giving map references for the air ambulance to pinpoint the isolated location.

Mr Bachelor, 59, was airlifted to hospital for emergency treatment.

He is now back home at the Richard III Hotel, awaiting heart bypass surgery.

Mrs Bachelor said: "It was Tom's second heart attack so he realised what was happening and pulled over in the car. I was distressed and had no idea where we were.

"The family pulled up and came over. They called the air ambulance and looked after Tom until they arrived.

"Their action meant the air ambulance got to us so quickly that it probably saved Tom's life."

Mr Fahy, who played for Aston Villa in the early 1980s, said: "I'm glad I had that first aid training. The paramedics said I'd done everything right."