Police are investigating after a man indecently assaulted a woman in an alleyway.

The 18-year-old woman was injured as she tried to stop the attack in Morecambe, Lancashire.

The man grabbed the woman's arm in an alleyway at the back of Victoria Street, near to Crystal T's nightclub.

He assaulted her, before she managed to push him off and run away.

Indecent exposure

Police are investigating a possible link with an incident about an hour earlier outside a car showroom on Lancaster Road.

A man indecently exposed himself to a 30-year-old woman.

He grabbed her handbag and then ran off.

The man was in his early 20s, 5ft 7in tall, of a medium build and had short blond hair.

He was wearing a round-neck jumper and jeans.