IS it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a Euro MP candidate.

Dick Rodgers hit the streets of Worcester complete with a model rocket strapped to his back to meet voters and promote his campaign to become an MEP.

Mr Rodgers, an orthopaedic doctor, is standing under The Common Good banner.

The Birmingham assistant clergyman aims to make people's lives happier by getting them to work together.

It is not the first time Mr Rodgers has employed unusual methods.

In 1986, the 56-year-old locked himself up in a cage for 46 days for the release of a jailed Russian poet, who was eventually set free.