A PERSON has died following an incident at Bowness Pier today. 

Police were called, alongside other emergency services at 12.52pm, following concern for the welfare of a person who had been in the water at Glebe Road, Bowness-on-Windermere. 

The North West Ambulance Service and an air ambulance attended but the man, aged in his fifties, subsequently died.

Officers assisted in closing the road while medical professionals provided treatment to the man at the scene.