Body of newborn baby found outside west London church

Officers remain in the area outside All Saints church, on Powis Gardens, and urgent inquiries are ongoing to locate the baby’s mother, the Met said. Photograph: James Weech/PA

The body of a newborn baby has been found outside a church in London, with police urgently appealing for the mother to come forward for her own welfare.

Officers were called at 12:46pm on Tuesday to Powis Gardens in Notting Hill, west London, after a report that the body of a baby had been found in a bag left outside a church.