A TEENAGER has been arrested following reports of an attempted robbery in Bemerton Heath this afternoon.

Specialist armed response officers were called to the Rawlence Road and Olivier Close area at about 2.15pm.

They entered a property in Rawlence Road and an 18-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted robbery. Another man was arrested at the same property on suspicion of perverting the course of justice, and an air rifle was seized.

A police spokesman said the victim was uninjured but no more information is available at this time.