Body found near football ground near Peterborough

Police and ambulance services were called to Towngate East in Market Deeping earlier this morning.

The body of a man, aged in his 70s has been found, but it is not thought there are any suspicious circumstances.

A spokesman for East Midlands Ambulance Service said: “We received a call at 10.29am on 31 December from our colleagues in Lincolnshire Police requesting medical assistance at Towngate East in Market Deeping, Peterborough. We sent a Lives Community First Responder, a paramedic in an ambulance car and a crewed ambulance.”

A Lincolnshire police spokesman said: “We attended this location at 10.30am this morning and have recovered the body of a man in his 70’s. There are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances.”