A WOMAN has been taken to hospital after falling from a balcony of a block of flats.

Emergency services were called to Westbrook, Saltdean following reports that a woman had fallen from a balcony at 8.20 am.

Officers from Sussex Police as well as crews from the South East Coast Ambulance Service were reported at the scene.

The woman was taken to hospital with a leg injury.

There are no suspicious circumstances involved in the incident, police said.

A Sussex Police spokesman said: "Emergency services were called after a woman was reported to have fallen from a balcony of a flat in Westbrook, Saltdean, at 8.20am on Saturday.

"She was taken to hospital with a leg injury.

"There are no suspicious circumstances."