A mother was left with severe facial injuries after she was mauled by a dog.

It’s thought the woman had been looking after the animal for her son when the attack happened at her home in Hove.

Horrified neighbours said they saw the woman, who is in her 50s, drenched in blood standing on first floor roof of Clarendon House in Clarendon Road.

She reportedly told friends she had been asleep on the sofa when the dog, thought to be a Staffordshire bull terrier, began attacking her face at about 3.30pm on Saturday.

She only managed to escape by scrambling out of her flat’s window onto the property’s roof.

For a full report see today's Argus.