POLICE are investigating the death of a Hampshire man after a body was found following a small fire in a caravan.

Emergency services were called to a caravan in Salisbury Road, in Sherfield English at around 8.30am this morning where the man's body was discovered.

Fire crews from Romsey and Redbridge were called to the scene by the ambulance service as a precaution after a small fire had broken out in the caravan and had been extinguished.

A spokesman for the fire service said a fire investigator will be looking at the site later today to determine the cause of the blaze.

Police say the death is not being treated as suspicious.