Ambulance 'used to move timber'

An investigation has been launched after an ambulance was used to transport timber at a builder's yard.

Workers at the yard in Greenock, Inverclyde, were seen loading wood and tools into the vehicle.

The Scottish Ambulance Service said it was examining why the vehicle, which should have been in a workshop, was used to move the material.

But it stressed that the mini-bus style ambulance was in the process of being decommissioned.

The ambulance was not a 999 response vehicle.

A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said: "This vehicle is not used to transport patients, it is in the process of being decommissioned and is at the end of its lifespan.

"There is an investigation to establish why it was being used to transfer timber.

"The service regards misuse of ambulance resources as a serious matter."