Police in Weston are searching for a man who's been posing as an Irish priest to con elderly residents out of hundreds of pounds.

They're investigating after reports a woman in her eighties lent him two hundred pounds when he said his car had broken down on the way to a funeral, but never got it back - and an eighty year old man lost four hundred pounds in similar fashion.

The suspect's white, in his early fifties, and about five-foot-six with grey hair.