A MURDER investigation has been launched after a man was stabbed to death.

Police were called to a home in Priory Avenue, Leigh, on Saturday afternoon after paramedics found the man slumped in a pool of blood.

Mark Kenyon, aged 27, was taken to Wigan Royal Infirmary for treatment to a single stab wound, but doctors were unable to save him.

Detectives arrested a 40-year-old woman at a separate address in Leigh shortly before midnight on Saturday on suspicion of murder.

It is believed the man was stabbed with a kitchen knife.

An alleyway at the rear of Priory Avenue was taped off yesterday and scenes of crime officers were working at the front of the house, which was covered with a tarpaulin. One resident said: "The first we knew was when the ambulances turned up, followed pretty quickly by the police.

"There have been police here ever since and people working inside the house. I don't know the guy although I have seen him about."

The woman, from Birkenhead, Merseyside, was being held by officers on Monday for further questioning.