A boy slashed in the face metres from a north London police station is one of four teenagers attacked with knives across the capital in one day.

Teenagers were also stabbed in Blackheath, south-east London, Barking, east London and Tooting, south-west London on Tuesday, the Metropolitan Police said.

The Metropolitan Police said a boy, believed to be aged 17, received a slash wound to his face at about 6.05pm on High Road, Tottenham.

The alleged attack is said by police to have taken place by a Betfred shop.

Blood splatters were being cleaned from the pavement outside a taxi office opposite Tottenham Police Station, around 160 metres down the road, on Tuesday evening.