POLICE were called at around 2.30am this morning to a fire at a caravan near Donyatt Bowling Club.

The body of a 39-year-old man was recovered from the vehicle and has been taken to a mortuary at Dorchester.

A police spokesman said that the family of the man, who has not yet been officially named, had been informed of his death.

She added that the reasons for his death were, as yet, 'unexplained and pending the results of a post mortem.'