A MAN has died after being found unconscious at a Royal British Legion club in north Dorset at the weekend.

Emergency services were called to the club on Church Lane, Blandford, at 12.35am on Sunday, April 12, following reports that a 54-year-old man was unconscious.

Speaking this evening, a Dorset Police spokesman said that paramedics carried out CPR at the scene and the casualty, who lived in Blandford, was taken to hospital before dying on Thursday.

He added that the death was not being treated as suspicious and has been referred to the coroner.