A teenager is seriously ill with head injuries after falling from his pushbike.

The 15-year-old was whisked by road ambulance to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton after he fell off his bicycle in Lower Dicker, near Hailsham, at 9.10am.

The boy, from the local area, came off at the Boship Roundabout on the A22.

A Sussex Police spokesman said: β€œHe was taken with serious head injuries. No other vehicle was involved.”

The air ambulance also attended.