Police are investigating the death of an elderly man after a mobile home blaze at a West Sussex caravan park early today.

Emergency services found the trailer on fire when they arrived at The Willows, Ford, near Arundel, at 3.40am today.

An elderly woman was taken to St Richard's Hospital, Chichester, suffering from shock.

A police spokeswoman said: "Both police scenes of crime and fire investigators are currently at the scene trying to establish the cause of the fire."