Dancing police cop in Philippine

MANILA: A 54-year-old Filipino traffic officer has become a street sensation as he delights drivers and pedestrians with his unique dance moves when directing traffic in Metro Manila.

Ramiro is an ordinary traffic police working on the crossing of Edessa Street and Macapagal Street in Pasay City, he is now famous among traffic police in the area.

Waving his hands for drivers to pass through, rotating his body while observing the vehicles passing, and sometimes a wiggle of the hips. With his dance moves he always keeps the traffic in order.

At 54 years old, Ramiro has worked as a traffic policeman for 6 years. Without fail he goes to work at 7:00 every morning, Monday to Friday, for 7 hours. Though very strenuous, he says he will always love his job and hopes to help those in need.

Paralysed stuntman completes London marathon

LONDON: The 51-year-old, paralysed and brain-damaged after a motorbike crash in 1996, completed the 42km (26 mile) route and raised £75,000 for charities Children with Leukaemia and The Eddie Kidd Foundation.

‘I’m lost for words,’ said his wife, Sam, 42. 'It's the best thing he has ever done. I'm so proud of him.

'It's amazing. He'd done it, he's done it! The one thing I would say to anyone out there who's disabled, injured or sick: get some perspective. If Eddie can do it, so can you.'

As a beaming Eddie walked the last steps of the marathon on a special frame, helped by Sam, actor Ray Winstone and former The Bill star Graham Cole, crowds of supporters erupted in jubilation.

His wife, a former model, cried with joy as her husband was sprayed with the drink by family and friends in celebration.