A VET has told how he was left partially paralysed after being attacked by a bull he was treating.

Chris Cundall, 63, was called to a farm close to his Scarborough practice to look at a bull that was lame.

The animal first crushed him against one wall before spinning around and pounding him again into the back wall of the enclosure.

Chris, a vet with 40 years’ experience, suffered a spinal fracture which impinged on his spinal cord, leaving him partially paralysed from the waist down.

“I don’t really remember the accident itself but, as I was on the ground waiting for the bull to come at me again, I do remember thinking well, this is probably it,” he said.

“I wasn’t frightened. I’ve had a very good life, but the animal never came at me again. At that time my ribs hurt more than my back but when I could not feel my legs I knew I was buggered.”

Chris was airlifted to the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, by the Yorkshire Air Ambulance and the accident, which happened a year ago, has left him in a wheelchair, although he still plans to do a sponsored walk on a Zimmer frame.

His accident features in the first episode of a new series of Helicopter ER, the award-winning UKTV programme which follows the life-saving work of the rapid response emergency charity. The programme airs at 9pm on Monday on the channel Really.