A NAKED man was arrested after police spent more than two hours searching for him.

Officers found a car abandoned in the middle of New Hey Road, Outlane, at 4.15am today and started to trace its owner.

But at 6.30am a nude man was spotted in the area with cuts to his face.

At one point the man called at a house and a woman gave him some clothes.

A man was eventually arrested in Holywell Green just before 9am.

He has been detained under the Mental Health Act.