A man has been seriously injured in an incident at a sports club.

Wales Ambulance Service was called at 10.40am to reports of an injured man at Chirk AAA Club on Holyhead Road.

A Wales Ambulance Service spokesman said: “We sent the Wales Air Ambulance and a man was airlifted to Wrexham Maelor Hospital with serious injuries.”

A resident who lives near the club said he heard a scream and saw a man backing away from a grass cutting machine and holding his hand.