Hero who saved City Hall with a sandbag in his teeth

Ronald's war bravery honoured as he turns 100

- ADAM ASPINALL

A MAN whose astonishing heroics saved a historic building during a wartime bomb attack has been honoured on his 100th birthday.

Ronald Brignall, who was aged 16 at the time, held a 12lb sandbag by his teeth, clamped another under one arm and scaled a 25ft drainpipe to tackle the flames on the roof of the city hall.

Cheered on by official fire-watchers during his brave act in the Second World War, he soon climbed back up the pipe with a fire hose gripped in his teeth to finish putting out the flames.