A POST mortem examination on a body found in a flat is being conducted.

The body is thought to be that of a man aged in his 50s but he has not yet been identified.

A neighbour found the body inside a ground-floor flat in Starkie Road, Tonge Moor, at 11pm on Wednesday. It is thought to have been there for some time and was partially decomposed. The death is not being treated as suspicious.