The police watchdog is to investigate the death of man restrained by officers attending reports of a “child being assaulted” inside a house in south London. The 45-year-old suffered a medical emergency after “actively resisting” police at a property in High Street, South Norwood.

South West Ambulance Trust has confirmed it is ‘working towards this position’ with hospitals from Swindon and Bristol to Cornwall and Plymouth, after Bristol Live revealed patients and ambulance crews were waiting outside hospitals longer in the West Country than anywhere else in England.

Police have arrested two men, aged 23 and 25, on suspicion of murder over the attack in Bodney Road, Hackney on Tuesday evening.