A PERSON has been pronounced dead outside a Tesco store in Ferndown

Police and the ambulance services were alerted to the incident at around 8am on Tuesday, March 5. 

A person had suffered a sudden death at the Ferndown Tesco on Pennys Walk.

A spokesperson for Dorset Police said: "We received a report at 7.56am on Tuesday 5 March 2024 of a sudden death outside Tesco in Pennys Walk in Ferndown.

"Officers attended with the ambulance service.

"The death is not being treated as suspicious and the coroner has been notified."

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 07:58hrs on Tuesday 5 March to an incident in Ferndown and we sent two double-crewed land ambulances and a rapid response vehicle.”