Nottingham in shock after three die in early-morning attacks

Police arrest man but keep open mind' on motive, while university cancels graduation ball after two students are among the dead

Two 19-year-old students and a man in his 50s were stabbed to death, and a further three people injured when a stolen van was driven into them, in an early-morning rampage across Nottingham.

A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Counter-terrorism police were helping officers with their investigation but Nottinghamshire police insisted they were keeping an open mind" about the motive.