Boys found stabbed to death

Two boys aged eight and seven have been found stabbed to death in the back of their father's car at a golf club.

Their 43-year-old father was slumped in the driver's seat with serious stab wounds to his chest.

Police made the grim discovery late last night in the car parked behind a maintenance shed at Hilltop Golf Club, in Handsworth, Birmingham.

The father was taken to hospital where his condition was today described as serious but stable. Chief Superintendent Ellie Barker, of West Midlands Police, said: "This tragic incident appears to be domestically related."

A spokeswoman for Birmingham council, which owns the course, said today: "We have closed Hilltop down to allow the police investigation to go ahead. Everyone is deeply shocked."

A 43-year-old man from Great Barr, Birmingham, has been arrested by police and is being quizzed over the attack.