POLICE swooped on a field in Weymouth after two youths were spotted with a gun.

Officers and the Dorset Police helicopter were alerted to an area behind the New Look factory in Mercery Road after a member of the public raised the alarm late yesterday afternoon.

Police used the helicopter's loud hailer to contact to the youths.

A police spokesman said the youths, both from Weymouth, in possession of a .22 air rifle, co-operated and handed over the weapon.

The youths were reported for related offences but were not held by police.