TWO people have been arrested after three people were stabbed at a house party in Gateshead.

Victims were seen running from a house on the Beacon Lough estate in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Northumbria Police said a 33-year-old man from Berwick-upon-Tweed has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, and a 36-year-old woman, of no fixed abode, has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.

The three victims remain in hospital and are said to be in a stable condition.