POLICE are investigating after an “unknown man” approached a child outside a school.

The incident happened near the gates of the Priory School in Mountfield Road in Lewes on Thursday.

A Sussex Police spokesman said: “We have received a report of a pupil being spoken to by an unknown man in a car outside the school.

“Officers have engaged with the informant and advised the incident has been referred to the local policing team for their awareness.”