New Glasgow police broke up a fight between an axe-wielding 56-year-old man and a pole-holding 52-year-old man at the Dragon Bowl restaurant last night.

The fracas started just after 6 p.m. Tuesday when someone made a 911 call about the two employees involved in the altercation at the Westville Road business.

Police charged the 56-year-old man with assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon dangerous to the public (an axe).

Neither man was hurt. The alleged axe man is due in Pictou provincial court today to answer the charges.