Arrest After Armed Police In Tunbridge Wells

9 March 2010, 18:07 | Updated: 10 March 2010, 13:15

Specialist officers have arrested a man who barricaded himself into a flat in Tunbridge Wells.

At around 11.30pm on Monday night a someone reported a disturbance at a flat in Crescent Road. 

Police negotiators spent 18 hours speaking with a man on his own in a flat and a number of specialist police teams, including armed officers, are there as well.

A small number of residents had to be moved out of nearby premises and eyewitnesses told Heart there was furniture from the shop below the flat strewn all over the road.