Police helped a girl to safety after she was spotted dangling her legs over the edge of a shopping centre's roof. 

The 17-year-old has been taken to hospital after been talked away from the edge of Croydon Centrale this afternoon.

The alarm was raised after the girl as spotted above the House of Fraser department store.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said officers attended the scene at 1.25pm and the girl was taken to hospital around two hours later.