AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after a man's body was found in a stream.

Officers were called by the ambulance service to reports a body had been found in a stream near to Deansgrave Road, Bacup, at 10.15am this morning

Police have not released the identity of the man or said whether his death is being treated as suspicious.

Murder arrest after man's body found in stream in Bacup

A police spokesman said: "At shortly after 10.15am today (Tuesday, January 30) police were called by the ambulance service to a report that the body of a man had been found in a stream at Deansgrave Road, Bacup.

"Inquiries are on-going."