Firefighters at Swindon Fire Station have been carrying out some gravity-defying training. 

Shoppers at the newly opened Aldi by Swindon's Magic Roundabout, and people driving past, will have seen a man in a stretcher being hung high up in the air on Saturday lunchtime. 

Firefighters at the station were carrying out a rescue scenario involving an aerial platform. 

The scenario was to get a man on a stretcher, off of the station roof and safely onto the ground below, with one brave firefighter volunteering to be that person. 

Photos shared by Swindon Fire Station showed the stretcher being hung from the cage of the aerial platform, and lowered to the ground. 

Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue crews will regularly practise emergency scenarios in the area.

In December, fire crews from two Wiltshire fire stations descended on a leisure centre in Royal Wootton Bassett for a 'hazmat drill' - and promptly apologised to locals for causing an alarm.

The training staged at the Lime Kiln Leisure Centre saw several members of the WBLETS amateur theatre group pretending to be 'casualties' of exposure to hazardous material.