A secondary school has been left red-faced after its Twitter account shared a pornographic video to its following of pupils and parents.

The Malling School had retweeted the three-second clip, initially posted by a blue-tick-verified porn star, to its 1,070 followers before it was swiftly removed on Wednesday afternoon.

The original video features a woman and a man who appears to to be dressed as an Easter Bunny and has been viewed more than 900,000 times since it was posted on April 19.

The Beech Road school's last tweet prior to sharing the clip featured a series of pictures from a school trip to Kenya, where pupils were helping to paint a classroom.

Its account was also spotted following eight others linked to the sex industry, before these were unfollowed.

One follower, a 19-year-old man whose brother attends the school, and asked only to be named as Richard, said: "I'm shocked. It's not what you'd expect of a school's Twitter feed.

"It makes you think about how it got there."

Last year, Oakwood Park Grammar School head teacher Kevin Moody blamed hackers after a pornographic tweet was "liked" from his Twitter account.

The Malling School has been approached for comment.