Axe attack

Three men were airlifted by helicopter to a Merseyside hospital following an “unprovoked attack” on Formby Beach that featured “an axe and a samurai sword”.

Police in New Zealand on Wednesday arrested a man after he attacked the country’s parliament building with an axe, smashing the building’s main glass entrance doors.

A 20-strong gang set upon four tree surgeons in Rochdale, England, calling them “white bastards” and cutting off a teenage worker’s hand with an axe.