A dad is 'lucky to be alive' after falling from a balcony while on a lads' holiday to Ayia Napa.

Sam Hudson, 24, had been partying with his brother and a pal at the resort town when he tumbled from the second floor of his hotel while drunk.

The decorator, from Lincoln, is now facing a lengthy stay at a hospital in Cyprus after breaking his hip, part of his lower back and his leg.

But the 'bubbly' young man had not taken out travel insurance, leaving his family with a medical bill potentially in the 10s of thousands.

Mr Hudson, who has a two-year-old son, left a pool party last Sunday evening when a passerby spotted him trying to walk between balconies at the Anmaria Beach Hotel, where he was staying.