A Lollipop Lady has been hospitalised after falling outside a school.

Paramedics were called to St John's Primary School in High Road, Buckhurst Hill, at just after 8.50am this morning following reports of a woman falling and suffering a cut to her face.

One rapid response vehicle and an ambulance crew attended the scene.

Crews treated a woman in her 70s for facial injuries.

She was taken to Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone for further treatment.