A MAN has been rescued from beneath Lowestoft pier after being discovered in the water with head injuries.

A MAN has been rescued from beneath Lowestoft pier after being discovered in the water with head injuries.

Paramedics, firefighters and the coastguard were called at around 8.30am to reports of a man on the rocks below the pier.

But emergency services arrived to find the 60 year-old man in the water.

He was conscious and breathing but was taken to the James Paget Hospital with head injuries.