Boy taken to hospital “as a priority”

A young boy has been hospitalised after a reported stabbing in Stratford this afternoon.

A spokesman for the London Ambulance said: “We were called at 12.20pm to an incident on the High Street.

“We sent one ambulance crew to the scene and our staff treated one patient, a young boy, who was taken to hospital as a priority.”

Transport for London confirmed that they shut the Docklands Light Railway station at Stratford High Street on police request at 12.45pm.