POLICE have spent the morning at a retail park in Colchester, supporting a man who had been there for some time.

Passers by reported hearing "loud music" from a car outside Costa and Subway in the Turner Road Retail Park.

It started at about 9am, and by noon the man was still there.

A spokesman for Essex Police said: "We were called at 9.45am to concerns for the welfare of a man in Colchester.

"Our inquiries are ongoing and the man is being supported."