Potato problem

A UK vicar went to hospital complaining of a pain in his bottom, which nurses eventually found to be potato stuck in it.

The clergyman, from Sheffield in North England, claimed he had fallen onto the vegetable while hanging curtains in his kitchen but gave no reason for being naked at the time.

After insisting his predicament was not the result of a bungled sex game, he underwent a delicate operation to remove the potato.

Nurse Trudi Watson said: "He explained to me, quite sincerely, he had been hanging curtains naked in the kitchen when he fell backwards on to the kitchen table and on to a potato. It's not for me to question his story."

Other objects which Sheffield medics have removed from patients' private parts include a can of deodorant, a cucumber, a Russian doll and a carnation.