Emergency services were called to Corfe Mullen yesterday following reports of a sudden death.

Police and ambulance were called to an address in Coventry Close just after 11am where a 45-year-old woman had died.

A Dorset Police spokesman said: "Officers were called to a report of a sudden death of a woman aged in her 40s.

"The next of kin have been informed and the coroner has been notified.

"The death is not being treated as suspicious."

A spokesman from South Western Ambulance Service said the woman was 45-years-old and that paramedics attended to confirm the death.