A man has been taken to hospital after a reported assault in a quiet residential road in Uxbridge.

London Ambulance Service were called at around 2.35pm to reports of an assault near Orchard Waye, a road off of The Greenway in Uxbridge.

A spokesman said: "We sent an ambulance crew to the scene. We treated a man for a head injury. He was taken to hospital."

An eyewitness told getwestlondon that Orchard Waye had been cordoned off and police and paramedics were at the scene.

Update: Man attacked with blunt instrument

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