Police are appealing for information after a 15-year-old schoolgirl was invited into a man’s car near her school in Letchworth yesterday.

The girl’s father told police that at about 4.45pm, a driver had stopped his Vauxhall van on Broadway and asked his daughter for directions.

The girl told him she wasn’t good at directions, so he asked her to get into the van to show him.

A member of teaching staff who was nearby asked the girl if she was OK and the van drove off.

The man is described as having short, mousy hair.

Anyone with information about this should call Herts police and quote incident 644 of May 4.