SIX British tourists facing obscenity charges after skinny-dipping in an historic fountain in Rome, are reported to work for a Cirencester business.

Many national news outlets stated that the group, who stripped off before entering La Fontana delle Naiadi, work for Environmental Dimension Partnership (EDP).

Italian police arrested them for public indecency and they were fined.

The men – named as company director Ben Rosedale, 39, senior architect Richard Crooks, 49, graphics consultant Tom Speed, 26, and Charles Mylchreest, 46 – were said to have stripped off completely.

The two women with the group – named as Claire Neale, 25, and Vicky Nall, a 32-year-old consultant ecologist, jumped in only wearing their underwear.

Footage was taken by passers by as traffic at the busy roundabout came to a standstill before police arrived and charged them with obscenity.

They were led away to a local police station, where they were handed €169 (£124) fines each, and could face charges of carrying out an obscene act in a public place, it has been reported.

The were on the last day of a weekend trip to the grand Hotel Quirinale, which costs around 200 Euros a night and just a stone's throw from the famed fountains in Piazza della Repubblica.

Flanked by the Roman baths of Diocletian and a luxury hotel, the fountain boasts statues of nymphs and sits in the middle of a broad roundabout near the city’s station.

Bystanders described how the group spent about "half-an-hour singing and shouting" as a crowd of people filmed and took pictures.

A spokesman for EDP, said: “EDP is exceptionally disappointed in the behaviour of some of our team in Italy over the weekend and it is something we are taking extremely seriously. The six individuals had been part of a group of just under 70 EDP employees who had attended a corporate event in Rome on Friday evening. Following the conclusion of this event, everyone was able to spend their free time in Rome over the weekend. EDP very much regrets any offence that has been caused, and we are considering the appropriate disciplinary action.”