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Police were called to a popular pub in Barnstaple this weekend following reports of a stabbing - but the only injury sustained was a minor cut requiring a plaster.

Three police cars rushed to The Water Gate, a Wetherspoon pub in The Strand, following the call at 8.30pm last night.

However, on arrival it turned out the ‘victim’ was a very drunk man who had not been stabbed.

A police spokesman said: “The man was in a toilet cubicle and had put his hand on the wall and felt a stab of something sharp on the edge of the cubicle. It was a minor cut to the hand requiring a plaster.

“The aggrieved was very, very drunk and refused to speak to police. There was no knife and it was not a stabbing.”