Residents spotted a number of police cars and ambulances outside Bourne End train station this morning.

Alan Mason, who works at The Furniture Recycling Shop opposite the station said “five or six” police cars were parked outside the station when he came into work at 9:30am, as well as three or four ambulances and an air response unit.

He said the emergency services remained at the scene for around two hours, with a police dog unit also arriving, before leaving together at about 11am.

Adding: “I don’t know what it was about. They didn’t stop the trains or anything – I thought maybe something that happened in the early hours of the morning.

“There was lots of coming and going of police cars and the air support vehicle was there for ages.”

A resident who lives near the station and didn’t want to be named said they had also seen a number of ambulances and police cars in the station car park at around 9am.

They said emergency service workers had taken “an elderly lady” into one of the ambulances on a stretcher, who looked “unconscious but not injured”.

“We didn’t see a lot of it, but it didn’t go on for too long. It seemed unusual for that many police to come, but they all left quite quickly after the lady was put into the ambulance.”

Thames Valley Police has been contacted for comment.