SUPERFIT bodybuilder Dan Parker has been crowned Mr South Britain.

Gym instructor and personal trainer Dan, 29, who trains at the Hartland House Club in Shanklin, won the under 90kg class at the regional heat of the British Bodybuilding Championships event held in Portsmouth on Easter Day.

He will now compete in the national finals at Nottingham on October 9.

He will be joined by another Islander successful in the Portsmouth regional event, decorator Karl Tibbett, 37, of Victoria Road, Sandown, who came second in the under 70kg class.

Dan, of Victoria Avenue, Shanklin, said: "I have entered the competition for the past five years and always came in the top three and this year I was determined to reach the national finals."