Travellers with up to 10 horses have moved on to a field behind a care home and near a primary school in Rochester.

Up to 10 caravans turned up at a council-owned park overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday in Friston Way.

It is believed some of them spent the previous night in the car park of the now empty Toys R Us at Horsted Retail Park.

Perry Holmes, Medway Council's chief legal officer, said: "We will be following a civil legal process to move te group on."

Police said they were aware of their presence.

The field backs on to Friston House nursing and residential home in City Way.

Administrative assistant Denise Burgess, said she noticed they had arrived when she got to work on Wednesday morning and they were still there when she arrived at 8.30am today.

She said: " There were two caravans up the road on Tuesday night and they seemed to have appeared here yesterday morning.I'm assuming that's because they had horses they needed grass to graze on. I think there were two foals.I saw a police car up here this morning."

She added that it had not impacted on the running of the home or their 80 residents who include dementia patients.

The park is also near Warren Wood Primary Academy in Arethusa Road.Nobody from the school wished to comment