Police swooped on a boy's eighth birthday party after bangs from plastic toy Nerf guns were mistaken for real gunfire. The officers were deployed after a neighbour reported the sound of children ...

SWNS Police called to reports of gun shots in a quiet village arrived to find children playing with Nerf weapons at an eight-year-old boy's birthday party. Officers were deployed to an addresss in ...

The mother of a boy whose Nerf ... eighth birthday in Yaxham, near Dereham. Oliver said: "I put my hands up and dropped my gun. I thought I was being arrested but it was a great party." ...