A MAN has been arrested after a body was discovered.

A 72-year-old man was found dead in a garage on the Isle of Wight.

Police officers were called to the home in Green Lane in the Northwood area of Cowes shortly after midnight.

Hampshire police say they are investigating the circumstances into the death and a 52-year-old man has been arrested.

However police have not revealed what he has been held on suspicion of.