AN Essex man has been arrested on suspicion of sexual offences as part of Operation Yewtree.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police arrested a 79-year-old man in connection with the investigation today.

He was taken into custody locally and bailed to return pending further inquiries, next due on a date in early December.

A statement from the Metropolitan Police said: "The individual falls under the strand of the investigation we have termed ‘others’."

Operation Yewtree is the Met's investigation into historical sexual abuse, launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.

The man is the 19th person arrested in the investigation and is not being directly connected to Jimmy Savile.