POLICE are appealing for information after a teenage girl was targeted by a man in a black van.

The 17-year-old girl was walking towards the Clockhouse pub in Tudor Road, York, at about 8.15pm on Friday, June 7 when the driver of the van asked her if she was "going to get in the car?"

After she refused, and crossed the road to the alley that leads onto Middleton Road to get away, the man pulled the vehicle into her path and got out.

He then pushed the girl but she hit him around the head with an umbrella and ran towards pub.

The man got back into his van and drove back up Tudor Road towards Gale Lane.

The driver, who spoke with a Yorkshire accent, is described as white, around 55 years-old, five feet 10 inches, tall and skinny build. He was wearing clear or silver round glasses, had a long white beard, white receding hair and a pale complexion.

He was also wearing a grey t-shirt, black comber raincoat, black jeans, black boots.

The vehicle is described as a small tatty black van, like a camper van with a side door, with blacked out windows and without alloys on the wheels.

Officers are conducting enquiries to establish the full circumstances surrounding the incident.

If anyone saw anything suspicious in the area or has any CCTV footage please contact North Yorkshire Police on 101.

Please quote reference number 12190103997 when passing on any information.