A man needed stitches to his face and arms after he was hit over the head with a glass bottle in a street assault in Eastbourne.

The 24-year-old victim was walking along Susan's Road with a friend at 2.30am on Sunday when he felt a pain on the back of his head and fell to the ground.

He was slashed with the broken end of a bottle. Police were called and the man was taken to hospital.

His attacker was Oriental, about 25, 5ft 10in tall and had with short, black hair. He wore a black and white jacket.