EMERGENCY services were called to a medical incident in Taunton on Good Friday - and a person was taken to hospital. 

South Western Ambulance Service were called to Grove Gate at 9.05pm on April 15 to the incident. 

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 21.05hrs on Friday 15 April to an incident in the Staplegrove area of Taunton.

"We sent an air ambulance, an operations officer and two double-crewed land ambulances.

"We conveyed one patient to Musgrove Park Hospital by land ambulance.”

Avon and Somerset Police officers were called to the scene around 9.10pm. 

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A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset Police said: "We were supporting the ambulance service with a medical incident. They called us at about 9.10pm."

Residents in the area said there was a 'huge police prescence' during the incident.