A 50-YEAR-old man hill walker died on the top of Darwen Moors.

The man from Blackburn had been walking with his dog when a fell runner found him collapsed.

She phoned the ambulance service who mobilised an air ambulance to the scene around Duckshaw Brook, near to Lords Hall.

But the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Bolton Mountain Rescue Team was contacted to help take the man’s body off the moors.

A spokesman for the rescue team said: “The team extends its sincere condolences to the family of the deceased hill walker.”

Bolton Mountain Rescue Team, Lancashire Constabulary and the ambulance service thanked the owner of the hill top Lords Hall, for allowing all the emergency responding vehicles to park up within the property.

The incident happened at around 3.20pm on Thursday but the details were only released this morning.