A former GP was charged today with carrying out a series of indecent assaults on young girls over an eight-year period, police said.

Dr Antony Collis, 58, from Wadhurst, East Sussex, was also charged with possessing a number of child abuse images.

He is accused of 11 counts of indecent assault on girls, whose ages ranged between nine and 14 years, between 1995 and 2003.

A spokesman for Sussex Police said he used to practise at the Belmont Surgery in Wadhurst.

He will appear at Lewes Magistrates' Court on December 2.