Emergency crews rush to Southsea street overnight to serious "mental health incident"

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Emergency crews rushed to a Portsmouth street overnight to a reportedly serious incident.

Police, fire crews and paramedics all attended Telephone Road in Southsea around 1am after a man was in distress before the situation was resolved.

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A police spokesman said: “We attended a mental health incident in Telephone Road just before 1am today.

"Officers spoke to a man at the scene before leaving them in the care of the ambulance service.”

Southsea firefighters said “a lot of appliances” attended before being told they were not needed.