POLICE have lifted a cordon at a site where a body was found in a Bolton park.

As reported, police were called to Leverhulme Park at around 11.15am on Sunday after volunteers from conservation group Bolton North East Wildlife Trial found what they believed to be a body.

Police later confirmed that the remains, found in an area near to Bradshaw Brook known as the wetlands, were the body of the man.

Crime scene investigators, detectives, officers and tactical aid units were all seen at the site on Sunday and Monday.

By this morning, the cordon had been lifted and police had left the scene.

Some yellow police tape could still be seen around the area the body was found but people could now access the area.

A post-mortem examination is to be carried out on the body, but police have said they are not treating the death as suspicious.

A file has been passed to the coroner to open an inquiry into the death.