A STREET brawl sparked an emergency response in Chester yesterday afternoon.

Police officers were sent to Christleton Road in Boughton at around 2.35pm on Wednesday, August 15.

One eye-witness told The Standard she had seen around five police cars at the scene.

A spokesman for Cheshire Police confirmed a man aged 35 and a woman aged 29 had been assaulted during an “altercation in the street”.

A 20-year-old man from Birkenhead has been arrested in suspicion of assault and a 16-year-old boy from Liverpool was arrested on suspicion of public order offences.

Anyone with information can contact police on 101 or by going to https://www.cheshire.police.uk/contact/general-enquiries/ and quoting IML number 155352.

Alternatively information can be given anonymously by contacting Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.