A hostage has spoken of his ordeal after a gun was held to his head by a man during a three-hour bank siege in England.

A tense incident at a west London bank is over, after a man was arrested at the scene.

Police are continuing to seal off and surround an area around a west London bank this evening, after an armed man is believed to have taken hostages at the Barclays branch.

An armed man is believed to have taken hostages in an incident at a bank, police said today.