POLICE are hunting a man who attacked and robbed an 82-year-old woman.

She was taken to hospital for treatment after the incident in Seamer Road, near Westbourne Park, Scarborough. The man grabbed her handbag and knocked her to the ground, taking the bag which contained £80 and a pension book.

Sergeant Matthew Millington, of Scarborough police, said they wanted to trace a man who had stopped to help just after the attack.