A man has been arrested after armed police swooped on Benhilton after reports of a gunman entering a house.

Armed officers were called to Benfleet Close after a witness reported seeing a man entering a house while brandishing a firearm at 9.42am.

The armed man is thought to live in the road and have mental health problems.

A witness who drove past just after 11am said: “There were about 30 officers down there - maybe more than that - fully geared up.

"It looked like they were in riot gear and that something big was going down.”

Police arrested a man later in the morning.

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