A BODY has been found in a garden of a house at Kendal.

Police said they were were called last night at around 6.40pm to a house at Rusland Park after receiving reports of a male body having been discovered.

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A neighbour has reported that there were between five and ten police officers in the garden of the house yesterday evening at about 7pm - and that police were knocking on doors in the area this morning to talk to people.

A police spokesman said that the death was not being treated as suspicious and that the coroner would be informed.

The identity of the man who has died has not been released.