“To put the record straight, a male individual made what transpired to be a hoax call to the police.”

Police were called to an alleged disturbance in early hours of Sunday morning outside a Blackpool bar.

However, bosses at The Galleon in Abingdon Street said there was no disturbance but instead a hoax call had been made to police.

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Lancashire Police said they were called at 3.55am to a report of a disturbance on the street outside the Galleon Bar.

A police spokesperson said: “Officers attended and after making enquiries, found that no offences had been committed.”

A spokesman from The Galleon Bar said: “We feel it is only correct that we inform all of our customers that there was no such brawl or false claim of fire arms activity outside @thegalleonbar after we closed in the early hours of last Sunday morning .

“To put the record straight, a male individual made what transpired to be a hoax call to the police.

“The police acted promptly and spoke to our door security team who identified this person responsible from viewing digital police data.

“The police followed correct procedures and placed the individual responsible for this hoax call into the back of their detention vehicle.

“ The emergency response team quickly left the scene as this was nothing but a hoax call.

“Hoax calls and misinformation are very costly to the police and damaging for the reputation of Blackpool Town Centre.

“Fortunately high definition CCTV is available which wholly rules out this ambiguity and misinformation published on social media last Sunday morning. We hope this offers greater clarity.”

*An earlier version of this story wrongly described the incident as a brawl. We would like to clarify there was no such and apologise for an inconvenience caused.