Parents are concerned about an abandoned caravan strewn with needles and drug-related paraphernalia on a route to school.

The caravan has been left in Golf Drive, Hollingdean, Brighton, for months, a route which hundreds of children follow to school each day.

Concerned parents say the caravan was abandoned several weeks ago but despite calls to Brighton and Hove City Council it has not been removed.

Single father Matthew Hobday, 39, lives 200 yards from the caravan and said it contained syringes and other materials associated with drugs.

He said: "About 200 schoolchildren from Hollingdean walk past it every day to get to school. Kids could quite easily get in."

A council spokeswoman said the caravan was due to be removed today.

She said: "We are leaving it 24 hours and are putting a sign on it saying it is being classed as abandoned to give the people who own it a chance to claim it."