A naked sunbather suffered minor injuries when he became impaled on a rusty metal spike during a drinking session with friends.

The 34-year-old had been drinking with two friends and his girlfriend near Haslar Lake, in Gosport, Hampshire, yesterday afternoon when he decided to sunbathe naked.

As he went to go to the toilet, he slipped and was impaled through the groin on the 8in iron spike.

Firefighters, ambulances, police and an air ambulance were sent to the scene, where paramedics gave the man oxygen.

The fire crews had intended to cut through the spike but were able to lift the man off it.

He was taken to the Queen Alexandra hospital, in Portsmouth, for treatment.