Bodybuilder 'scared of heights' on Verti-Go waterslide

A bodybuilder who claimed he was scared of heights in a personal injury claim has had his case thrown out of court after a video emerged of him on Europe's highest waterslide.

Ben Bardsley, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, claimed he was left with a fear of heights and unable to lift weights after falling into a koi carp pond in 2015.

A judge dismissed his damages case at Manchester County Court as "nonsense" after seeing footage of him careering 108ft (33m) down the Verti-Go in Spain.

He was ordered to pay more than £14,000 in legal costs.