Pornhub has announced it will restrict access to its website in the UK from February.

Under the changes from 2 February, only people who have previously made a Pornhub account will be able to access its content.

It blames what it says is the "failure" of Online Safety Act (OSA) requirements for some sites to use age verification to stop children seeing pornography online.

In October, Pornhub's parent company, Aylo, said the requirement had caused traffic to the website to fall by 77%.

The regulator Ofcom said at the time tougher age checks were fulfilling their purpose of stopping children stumbling across inappropriate material.