A dog walker has had part of his finger bitten off by a wild boar in the Forest of Dean when he stumbled across it as he walked in woodland near his home

The rogue male boar attacked Clive Lilley, 51, at Viney Hill, near Lydney, Gloucestershire just before dawn last Wednesday morning.

Mr Lilley said the boar bit off the underside of his finger but left the nail intact.

"They told me it should grow back around although there will be a scar," he said. "Fortunately I was wearing tight fitting elasticated gloves which absorbed much of the impact.

"I walk my dogs in the woods every day and I have seen boar hundreds of times but never had any trouble with them before.

"This one showed no interest in my dog, only me. The dog was a little way up the track at the time.

"When I reported the incident to the Forestry Commission they said a woman had been knocked over by a boar at the same spot about half an hour before I was attacked."