Police are investigating after reports of elderly Weston residents being conned by a fake priest.

A woman in her eighties gave a man posing as an Irish priest two hundred pounds after he told her his car had broken down on the way to a funeral.

An 80-year-old Weston man lent the man four hundred for vehicle repairs, believing the money would be paid back into his bank account.

The suspect is described as white, aged 51, five-foot-six tall and with collar length grey hair.