DETECTIVES are investigating reports of a group of children being approached by men in a van.

Police were alerted to a report of two men in a black van approaching children on Palfrey Heights, in Brantham at 6.30pm on Sunday, September 30.

A Suffolk Police spokesman said: "The men attempted conversation with the children who ran away and the van left the location at speed."

Police are appealing for anyone who may have seen any suspicious activity in the area at the time of the offence to contact them, quoting incident number 293 of Sunday, September 30.