A woman remains in intensive care after she and her two children were stabbed in Norwich.

Police have named the 23-year-old mother as Victoria Meek, whose three-year-old daughter remains in a critical but stable condition at Addenbrookes Hospital.

Her six year old daughter, who also suffered injuries, is in a stable condition at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.

Police were called to an address in Mill Close at around 12.30pm yesterday to find a woman and her two children with stab wounds.

A 28-year-old-man, believed to be the father of the younger child, was arrested in on South Beach Parade, Great Yarmouth, at 2pm yesterday afternoon. He remains in police custody awaiting questioning.