Police have been informed after contractors found a car submerged in a Somerset lake.

The object was discovered during maintenance work to relocate fish after installing a net at Apex Park Lake at Highbridge.

A spokesperson for Sedgemoor Council said: "During the annual fish relocation/netting works in Apex Park Lake, a submerged object was detected.

 "It was originally thought that it was either a boat or an old floating pontoon which used to be used for breeding birds.

 "After Sedgemoor District Council, owners of Apex brought in specialist contractors to recover the object, it was found to be a submerged car.  

"The vehicle details have been handed over to the Police for further investigations."

The maintenance work at the lake was to install a net to separate the model boating section from the fishing area.

Fish were moved from the boating section to the fishing lake after the net was installed.

Apex Leisure Park is owned and run by Sedgemoor Council and covers 42 acres, including several lakes at former clay pits which are now inhabited by water birds including ducks and swans.