Things looked bleak enough for the 24-year-old parachutist who blew off course and landed badly, breaking both her ankles.

But then she found she had come down in a pig farm and feared she would have to fend off curious porkers until paramedics arrived.

The 24-year-old woman was aiming for a drop zone on an airfield at Weston-on-the-Green, near Bicester, during the descent on Saturday evening.

But she was blown off course and landed instead in a pig farm just over the perimeter hedge of the airfield.

Paramedics were called and she was eventually carried away on a stretcher.

Ambulance control superintendent Dave Hogg said: "She just had a bad landing. She was fully conscious throughout.

"There were pigs roaming around but they did not come anywhere near her. They were more frightened of us than we were of them."

He said in some cases pigs could be quite vicious, but on this occasion they kept their distance.

The woman was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where she is now recovering.

She was on a training exercise but it was not clear whether she was a civilian or military parachutist.

RAF Weston-on-the-Green is used for military training as well as for parachuting by enthusiasts and charity fundraisers.

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