TWO emergency workers have been taken to hospital after being assaulted in Boscombe. 

Emergency services were called to Campbell Road on Wednesday morning after a concern for welfare was raised for a man at a property.

Police attended alongside the ambulance service and fire service.

While at the scene, it was reported that a paramedic and a police officer were assaulted.

Both were taken to hospital as a precaution and their condition is not believed to be serious.

The man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker.

A spokesperson for Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "We were called to Campbell Road, Bournemouth at 1.16pm on Wednesday in support of a police incident.

"We have one crew from Springbourne in attendance."

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 11.38am on Wednesday to an incident in Boscombe, Bournemouth.

"We sent three double-crewed land ambulances and an operations officer, and we conveyed one patient by land ambulance to Poole Hospital and two patients by land ambulance to Royal Bournemouth Hospital.”