Overview
- Officers were called just after 5am Friday to Seaburn Beach in Whitburn, where a woman's body was found.
- Northumbria Police said Saturday there are no suspicious circumstances in the death.
- Formal identification has taken place and the woman's next of kin have been told.
- A short cordon on the promenade was put up during the response Friday morning and the area later reopened.
- A report will go to the coroner, who reviews deaths that are not being investigated as crimes.