An elderly man who flashed two women in Nailsea while standing naked in his garden last New Year's Eve was chased by one of them.

North Somerset magistrates court's heard how seventy-six year old Geoffrey Griffiths, who's been given a two-year conditional discharge after pleading guilty, ran when confronted by pub landlady Louise Thomas, beggin her not to call the police or tell his wife.

The pensioner's also been told to pay compensation, after shutting the thirty-seven year old's arm in a security door at his housing complex.