A dead body was found on Banstead Common this morning, it is being reported.

The body was discovered in the woods alongside Sutton Lane, Banstead, close to both High Down and Downview prisons, on the border of Sutton and Epsom and Ewell.

Events listings website What’s On in Banstead tweeted, in the last half an hour, that a body had been found.

On its Facebook page, Michelle Quaintrell said: "There has been a dead body found in the woods there this morning.

"Apparently it had been there a while.  Not very nice for whoever found that."

Alison Pinches added: "Oh god, I saw the private ambulance this morning and thought it might be something like that."

More to follow.

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