POLICE seized an imitation gun after being called to a house in Holgate, York.

Officers were called to the house in Lindley Street, after reports of a man carrying what appeared to be a gun yesterday afternoon.

"We were told a Chinese-looking man had gone into the house," said a North Yorkshire Police spokesman.

"An officer knocked on the door and retrieved an imitation firearm. No armed police officers were called and I don't think anybody was arrested."

Updated: 11:13 Wednesday, April 10, 2002