A 20-year-old man was taken to hospital early this morning after being stabbed in the chest.

Paramedics were called to Sherwood Avenue, in Abingdon, at 3.14am after receiving calls that a man had been stabbed.

The man was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital, in Oxford, with injuries that were considered serious but not life threatening.

The man later discharged himself from hospital and is refusing to speak to police about the incident.