A huge cache of weapons has been recovered at a house in East Sussex.

Items including 28 handguns, 73 knifes, 62 batons, 21 wooden batons, laser pens and live and blank ammunition.

Police found the haul at a house in Hughenden Road, Hastings, after the 55-year-old householder died.

A force spokesman said it was believed to have been a private collection.

He said: "A lot of the firearms had been discharged."