A man in his 30s has died in Hitchin this morning.

Police were called at 6.30am after ‘serious concerns’ about welfare of a man in an alleyway off Wymondley Road – near St Michael’s Road in Hitchin – were reported to them.

A police spokesman later confirmed the man had died.

Police have contacted his next of kin and the death is not being treated as suspicious.

The area has been cordoned off while police investigate.