Three injured in glass attack outside pub

A DOZEN police cars, undercover cops and an ambulance descended on Nuneaton town centre after jubilation over England’s World Cup win spiralled into violence.

They swarmed to Bridge Street after reports of mass disorder breaking out in the streets after the match at around 6pm on Saturday. When officers arrived, they found three men lying on the floor.

A Good Samaritan was caring for one of the men, then police took over first aid before paramedics arrived.

It was due to the threat of further trouble that such a huge police presence was in town, much to the shock of onlookers and shoppers.

One man, who has not been identified, was taken to hospital with facial injuries. Two other men also suffered facial injuries but they were treated at the scene.

The Bridge Street violence was just one of a huge number of callouts for Warwickshire Police Force on Saturday.

In fact, according to a tweet by Warwickshire Police Operations & Communications Centre (OCC), the sheer number of call-outs on Friday night and Saturday night meant it was busier than on New Year’s Eve.

In the tweet posted in the early hours, Warks Police OCC said: “It is nearly 3am and we are still incredibly busy with emergency and non-emergency calls coming in.

“Last night and tonight have been and are - busier than New Year’s Eve. Our staff in the OCC and officers are working incredibly hard to try and deal with the increased demand.”

Bedworth Safer Neighbourhood teams also had their say - and got straight to the point.

Today, Warwickshire Police said between 5pm and 5am they received 285,999 calls, with 91% were answered in 10 seconds. That represents a 43% increase in demand compared with last weekend - which in itself was very busy.