A musician who has hiccupped more than 10million times over two years is still searching for a remedy after surgery failed to end his suffering.

Christopher Sands went under the knife after trying every known cure from getting a fright to hypnosis and sitting in a compression chamber.

'I am still on the journey to find a cure for my hiccups,' Mr Sands said after having keyhole surgery on a damaged stomach valve at Nottingham's Queen Medical Centre.

'I won't really be able to sleep properly still, and I won't be able to play in the band as much as I would like.'

However, the op should ease the 25-year-old's indigestion, allowing him to tuck into his favourite pepperoni pizza.

Mr Sands, from Timberland, Lincolnshire, has a long way to go before beating the world record for hiccupping which is 68 years.