Man arrested over hammer attack

A 39-year-old man has been arrested over an attack on a woman with a hammer and a knife in Liverpool.

The 39-year-old woman suffered serious head and neck injuries in the attack at the house in Eastbourne Road, Walton, on Monday night.

Merseyside police had named a man they wanted to speak to and said on Wednesday that officers in Stockton-on-Tees had arrested a 39-year-old.

He is due to be questioned by officers in Merseyside.