POLICE were called last night after a woman was reportedly intoxicated and refused to leave a bus in Bournemouth

A woman reportedly refused to get off a bus in Holdenhurst Road, in Lansdowne, shortly before 11pm on Monday, February 7. 

One passenger on the bus said they were sitting onboard waiting for around 20 minutes after the bus driver called the police for assistance. 

He added he heard some noise on the top deck of the double decker bus before the bus driver asked the woman, believed to be intoxicated, to leave. 

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It is reported police arrived and the woman left the scene. 

A Dorset Police spokesman said: “We received a report at 10.37pm on Monday, February 6 of a woman who was believed to be intoxicated refusing to get off a bus in Holdenhurst Road in Bournemouth. 

“It was subsequently reported at around 10.45pm that the woman had left the bus and no further police action was required.”