A LOSTOCK man will have to undergo surgery after a vicious attack on Works Lane, Lostock, on Friday night.

The 27-year-old victim was walking along the road at about

midnight when a man started shouting verbal abuse at him.

Ignoring it, he walked on but was approached from behind by the attacker, who punched him to the ground. The victim got back to his feet but was punched several more times around the head and fell back to the ground, where he was kicked around the head and face, leaving him with a fractured right eye socket, bruising to the eye and arm and cuts to the head. Police are looking for a male of mixed race, aged about 20, and 5ft 8ins in height.