Police close river footpath at Kempston after body found

Bedfordshire Police closed a footpath along the River Great Ouse at Kempston this morning after a body was found.

Police were called just before 6.35am this morning (Friday) to a “report of a concern for welfare” by the river in Kempston.

Emergency services attended and a woman in her 50s was found and pronounced dead at the scene.

The death is being treated as non-suspicious and will passed to the coroner in due course.

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