A teenage girl was grabbed and assaulted in a street in Oxford.

Police are appealing for information after the attack in Sandfield Road, Headington, at about midday on yesterday.

The 17-year-old girl was not seriously injured and police are treating the incident as an assault.

Her attacker was described as aged about 28 to 29, five feet eight to five feet nine inches tall, of middle-eastern or Asian appearance and wearing glasses and a dark jacket.

Anyone with information should call Pc Russ Knapman on 08458 505505 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.