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Most of a body has been discovered after a head was found hanging from a tree in north London.

A dog walker has found "charred" human remains in a wooded area, leading the police to commence an urgent investigation.

Police were notified at 12:37 pm on August 15 about a report stating that builders working on Cleveland Road in Lytham, Lancashire, had discovered what they believed to be bones, according to Fylde Police.

Human bones dated to be more than 1,000 years old have been discovered in the garden of a hotel, with 24 skeletons found alongside bones belonging to a number of others.