Armed police called to incident on Arbroath street

There was a heavy police presence in Arbroath on Thursday night to deal with an incident in the Dishlandtown Street/Colville Place area of the town.

Officers, some of them armed, were called to the scene around 9pm after it was reported a man had been seen with a knife.

The incident was near a railway bridge over the main east coast railway line, with the line closed for some time and trains delayed.

A man was arrested and a report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.

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