A MAN has been ordered by a court to pay nearly £3,000 in child support.

Blaine Sebastian Fisher has been told he must pay £2866 or face a six-week suspended prison sentence.

South Cumbria Magistrates' Court heard the 36-year-old, of Pypers Croft in Barrow, had been 'burying his head in the sand over the payments' and had paid some money he owed directly.