Boy seriously injured as wind sweeps zorb into air at festival in Southport

Nine-year-old inside transparent ball as freak gust of wind' carries it over trees before landing on wheelie bin

A nine-year-old boy has been seriously injured after the inflatable zorb ball he was playing in was carried so high into the air by a freak gust of wind" that eyewitnesses described it gliding over some trees.

The child was inside the transparent plastic orb, floating on a pool of water at an outdoor festival in Southport, Merseyside, when the ball suddenly took off into the air.