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Super hero saves boy
SUPER-strong hero Colin O'Neill saved a 14-year-old boy's life by lifting a three-ton mechanical digger off him and holding the weight for 20 minutes.
Jon-Ashley Entwisle was in the seat of the mini-digger when it hit a hole and toppled over as he tidied a plot of land behind his house with his father John.
Jon-Ashley tried to leap clear but could not get out of the way and a huge metal bar above the digger's seat crashed down on to his chest, pinning him to the ground.
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Colin, a neighbour, ran from his back garden to investigate after the machine's engine cut out. Colin, 44, a coffin maker at Co-op Funeral Services in Radcliffe, spotted Jon-Ashley's feet sticking out from underneath the bar, grabbed a length of scaffolding, and used it to prise the digger an inch off his body.
Incredibly, he continued to take the full weight of the machine for 20 minutes while paramedics treated Jon-Ashley underneath and decided it was safe to pull him free.
Jon-Ashley, who goes to school in Summerseat, near Ramsbottom, was taken to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, with a swollen lung and a scratched kidney but is expected to make a full recovery
Colin, who says he doesn't work out at the gym, told modestly how he was just in the right place at the right time.
But Jon-Ashley's father, John, said: "Words cannot express how much I owe him."
