A BODY has been discovered in a river at Bradford on Avon.

Wiltshire Police were called yesterday evening after the body was reported 200 metres downstream from the weir on the River Avon.

The body has been taken to Southmead Hospital mortuary in Bristol, where a post mortem examination will be conducted at 11am today by Home Office pathologist Dr Huw White.

Formal identification of the body has not yet been completed.