A martial arts expert dubbed the 'Stockport Spider-Man' has been hailed a "proper hero" after rescuing a terrified four-year-old boy from the top of a 50ft fairground slide.
Jason Baird, of Reddish, was on a day out with his partner and two children when he spotted the tearful youngster stranded on the 'helter skelter' slide. The lad had slid only a short way down when he had second thoughts and tried to climb back up just as other children were beginning to follow him down, leaving him teetering on the edge some 50ft in the air.
Seeing the boy in distress, the 'Stockport Spider-Man' ran up and scooped the sobbing child into his arms and slid back down to safety. Jason, 36, told the Manchester Evening News : "His mum was getting irate and saying 'my little boy is up there and he's going to fall'. "The guy who was running it was walking up the stairs but there was a queue of kids.
